The wildest shaggy-haired ox on the Internet awaits your presence at Yak's Corner, the coolest magazine for kids. Trot over to www.nieonline.
com/detroit where jokes, crafts, contests and art are all the rage. You'll find far-out interactive fun and games like Yak-a-doodle and Yak Puzzles. Meet amazing animals from around the world, including monarch butterflies and scary monkeys. Plus, the Yak is always on the road, taking you to places as fascinating as Japan's Tokyo Sealife Park and New York's Broadway theater district. Looking for news you can use? Yak's Corner covers everything from allowances to kid movie stars. Yak's Corner is the place where kids can come to make crafts, read jokes and write stories. Get ready for a Big Yak Attack!

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Fun is the operative word at Fun School, where school lessons go hand in hand with games, activities and plain old horsing around. Jump on the next yellow bus and head out to www.funschool.com .The site features way-cool interactive activities, such as concentration games, jigsaw puzzles and history comics. Join your classmates in the search for a T-Rex at the Dinosaur Dig, or dive for treasures and marine life at The Reef of Lost Worlds. Do you know the capital city for each state in the U.S.? Find out at the Capital Fieldtrip. If going green is in your future, you'll love the offerings at Protect Our Environment. From Haunted Numbers to Paint Brush Math to Animal Homes, Fun School is undoubtedly the learning arcade on the Web. And to give your brain a rest after class, there's even a fireworks show. Who needs recess when you have Fun School? (Disclaimer: This site now contains advertisements.)

So you've mastered all of the letter tiles, crossword puzzles and word searches, and now you're ready to create your own. Then it's time to head out to Puzzlemaker, the Web site that lets you produce puzzles with the latest in Web sophistication. Find your way through the maze and head toward http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com. Choose from a variety of computer-generated games, including number blocks, math squares and word searches with a hidden message. If you're looking for a puzzle with flair, you can solve a maze from the beautiful hand drawings of the artist named Tesseract. Puzzlemaker is a fun site that you can't pass up.

Get out your magnifying glass and a pointy Sherlock Holmes hat, because it's time to solve some mysteries. Of course, it doesn't take a trained detective to find this mysterious site. Just jot this down on your list of clues: http://kids.mysterynet.com. If you get a thrill from things that go bump in the night, you're sure to find something mysteriously fun about this site every week: new scary stories, mini-mysteries, magic tricks and writing contests. Just log on once and you'll have all the evidence you need. Are you on the case? (Disclaimer: This site now contains advertisements.)

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