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5 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 1
Mon, Oct 5, 1998
LeVar is helping his friend, Paul, by working in Paul's warehouse. But LeVar can't seem to get anything done due to how disorganized the warehouse is. So he decides to use Math to help get things in order. Michelle Trachtenberg narrates the book, "Math Curse" which tells the story of a girl who is overwhelmed by Math, sees it wherever she goes and can't seem to solve the problems she faces.
Episode 2
Tue, Oct 6, 199830 mins
Scott Irby Ranier tells a tale of a boy who is followed home by a wave of water after a vacation at the beach, and how he and his family must convince the wave it is better off living in the ocean than in his bathtub.
Episode 3
Wed, Oct 7, 199830 mins
LeVar attends a rummage sale to observe how people sometimes barter for items when they don't have money to buy them. Josie de Guzman reads the feature story about a girl who follows her grandmother around the farmer's market to trade items to get the ingredients for their weekly chicken stew after they discover they are out of all the groceries they need and don't have cash to buy them.
Episode 4
Thu, Oct 8, 199830 mins
LeVar explores Broadway as he looks at live entertainment options. Lucie Arnaz reads the feature story, about a young girl who decides to put on a show for her aunt, who usually treats her to Broadway play matinees, but now Aunt Lena is laid up in bed following a fall, and she gets depressed because she's missing her stories.
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 9, 199827 mins
While treating himself to breakfast at a local diner, LeVar talks about all kinds of jobs that make up the working world and reminisces about some of the places he visited, the people he met and the kinds of jobs he tried to do in previous "Reading Rainbow" episodes. David Canary narrates Gary Paulsen's book "Work Song" which poetically describes the working world and the importance of the jobs that people do.