TIME For Kids

In the new comedy film The Breadwinner, Nate Wilcox is learning how to manage his stay-at-home-dad life after his wife’s business gets popular. As he takes on more responsibility for his three daughters, Nate learns the importance of teamwork. From silly and heartwarming moments, he also learns more about the struggles of parenting. The film stars Nate Bargatze and Mandy Moore.

The University of Michigan Wolverines won the 2026 NCAA men’s basketball title on April 6, defeating the University of Connecticut (UConn) Huskies. It’s Michigan’s first national title since 1989. The win concluded the NCAA Division I tournament—the March Madness tournament— which tipped off March 15. The final score was 69 to 63, after a close game. Michigan got off to a rocky start. The Wolverines missed their first 11 three-point shots, the AP reports.

TFK Kid Reporter Axel Foster read Aku: Journey to Ibra and interviewed Micah Johnson, its author. Read Axel’s thoughts below. Arthur Keaton Underwood, or Aku, is just a “regular” boy who loves video games and baseball, until he happens upon his missing grandfather’s astronaut helmet. Joined by his two best friends, Aku makes an intergalactic journey. On Planet Ibra, he meets the creatures who live there and learns about the native plants. But not all of Ibra’s inhabitants are friendly.

There are more than 8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that number is expected to be nearly 10 billion. But other species have a less certain future. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, about 30% of known species could go extinct by 2050. Now there might be a way to protect them, or at least preserve their genes gene the information in a cell that determines a characteristic of a living thing (noun) . Then, even if they do vanish, scientists might one day bring them back.

In the movie GOAT, now in theaters, Will Harris wants to be roarball’s GOAT: greatest of all time. Roarball is a fierce, full-contact sport played by animals. Since Will was a kid, he’s dreamed of joining the pros on the court. But he’s only a goat, deemed “too small to ball.” When his favorite team, the Vineland Thorns, is on a losing streak, he gets the chance of a lifetime. Can Will change the game?

TFK Kid Reporter Hanming Wang read The Road from Nowhere and interviewed its author, Avi. Read Hanming’s thoughts below. In his newest book, award-winning author Avi transports readers to a tiny silver-mining town in 1893. The Road from Nowhere takes place in Gatchett’s Gulch, which feels like nowhere to Ollie, the book’s 13-year-old protagonist. Ollie dreams of finding silver to give his family a better future.

Some people who decide to get a dog or cat rescue their new pet from an animal shelter. The animal might come from far away—even another country. Vijay Bissoondutt is the manager of the Humane Society of the BVI, an animal shelter in the British Virgin Islands, a tropical island region in the Caribbean. He lives on Tortola, the biggest of the islands. Tortola is the only island in the region with an animal shelter, so Bissoondutt helps rescue dogs and cats from the other islands, too.

Zacky Muñoz, 13, is careful to avoid foods he’s allergic to. Eating even a tiny bit of one can make him sick. In first grade, he accidentally ate a breadstick that contained sesame. After just a few bites, “I knew something was different,” he told TIME for Kids. “So I went to the nurse.” YOUNG CHANGEMAKER Zacky Muñoz advocates for kids with food allergies. He uses his experience with allergies to raise awareness of them.

Marcus Fontoura is a vice president at Microsoft. He’s also the author of a book about how people can use AI and other technology to their advantage. Fontoura shared his thoughts with TIME about the future of jobs in computer science. Here’s an adaptation of that article. Over the past several decades, the technology industry has offered American workers high wages and high levels of job security. But recent uncertainty in this industry has made people question the value of tech jobs and skills.

When’s the last time you tidied up? You never know what you might find. Last year, three brothers found a copy of the first Superman comic book while cleaning out their mother’s attic. On November 20, that comic sold for $9.12 million at Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Texas. Heritage says Superman number 1 is the most expensive comic book ever sold. The previous record for a comic-book sale was $6 million.