The winds of the ocean have arrived on the coast of the Pacific North West with a message for Mother Nature. She is disturbed to learn that Australia is on fire and that a call for help has been made by the animals that live there! An emergency meeting takes place and many of the forest animals rush to her tree to hear what she has to tell them. It is very bad news. There is now a mission that comes with great risk to those that volunteer she explains after telling everyone that the great land on the other side of the world is burning out of control! Feeling her sadness the animals come together with love in their hearts and with fierce determination in their eyes. Many of the animals decide to step forward wanting to help, making Mother Nature so very proud. This will be no easy task she tells them all. The volunteers must train hard and travel a great distance over thousands of miles in order to reach the land down under. This will be the most dangerous experience any animal has ever faced from that part of the forest.Brave Jack soon realizes that once they get there they will face great challenges and some may not return. Hamish McChipmunk consoles his friend but tells everyone that many lives may have already been lost in that great land and there's no more time to think about the dangers that await them. The call for action is now. Will Brave Jack and his friends be able to put out the terrible fires? Will Goose Commander and his squadrons of rescue geese be able to fly all that way with the fire-fighting chipmunks on their backs? And most importantly, will they be able to rescue the animals that so desperately need their help?

In Episode #3, Brave Jack and his forest friends encounter a natural disaster in their own forest. They must flee for safety as a mountain nearby erupts violently spraying lava and shaking the earth all around them!

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Tale of Despereaux.

Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer’s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuela’s masterpiece is a timeless, authentic portrayal of peasant life, revolutionary zeal, and political disillusionment.