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Can you find 18 differences?
8 The Fruit Bowl 18 Back in Time
Caper 17 Paws and Think for Dessert
Who has been taking a bite Fun at an outdoor concert. Jed and Mia travel through
out of each apple? time for a special treat.
11 Ima Termite 22 Bot Spot
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12 Goofus and
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13 Gallant Kids 25 Can You Do It?

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is the Monarch Kid. to your shoulder.

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26 The Bluebird 32 Baseball’s

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right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks
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 The
Fruit Bowl
Caper By Debbie Austin
Art by Chris Jones

The note looked like

a flag waving for my
attention.

Hmm. What was this about? What was for dessert anyway?
Mom thinks
I did this?
And no
dessert?!
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I have to solve this
mystery—fast!

I hurried to my room and And a hat. Every respectable

gathered supplies. detective wears a hat.

Elementary,
my dear
Watson.

I’ll investigate
from here.

I smelled his breath.

No, Max! You’re going Hmm, wait.
to blow my cover. Where were you Whew-ee!
at the time of Definitely
the crime? not apples.
 My overdue
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mystery solved.

Was that a nose? And fur? In scampered suspect number 2!

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some pie?

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All About Me
By B.J. Lee
Art by Rob McClurkan

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House of wood
Motto/Mantra:
Wood tastes good
Hobbies/Interests:
Love to chew
Favorite Quote:
“Tunnel through”
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Demolition
Thoughts on Wood:
Good nutrition
Insect Shape:
Long and lean
Special Purpose:
Feed the queen
Working Hours:
Night patrol
Worries/Fears:
Pest control
 Goaondfus There’s some of Goofus and Gallant in us all.
When the Gallant shines through, we show our best self.

Gallant
®

Gallant is respectful to the

substitute teacher.

Goofus acts up when he has

a substitute teacher.

“Good game,” says Gallant.

“The ump favored your team!”

says Goofus.

YOUR Goofus and Gallant Moments

“I felt like Goofus “I felt like Goofus “I felt like Goofus
when I ate a lot of when I was told to clean when I hid my brother’s
chocolate without my room but asked my dinosaurs.”
permission.” sister to clean it.” Sarah, Age 8, Arizona
Elizabeth, Age 9, South Carolina Donald, Age 8, Ohio

12 JUNE 2017 Art by Leslie Harrington.

 Gallant
K ds

The
Monarch Carter Steadman teaches kids

Kid how they can help monarchs.

In second grade, Carter Steadman for larvae (young caterpillars) emerged from its
learned about monarch butterf lies. to eat and f lowers that provide chrysalis, Carter Munching
He’s been on a mission to help nectar for adult monarchs. released it into
the orange-and-black insects Carter wanted to do more. “In the wild. By
Monarchs
ever since. Carter’s passion has the spring, I decided, You know summer’s end,
C arter spent
1 1/2 hours
even earned him a nickname: what? Let’s put a monarch way he had raised every
day feedin
the Monarch Kid. station at our school.” With the and released 312 g his
caterpillars
In North America, there principal’s help, Carter and his monarchs! !
are fewer monarchs than there mom held a fund-raiser to buy But that’s not
used to be. Herbicide use and plants. Then 100 students planted all. Carter started a
land development threaten the milkweed and f lowers in a large Web site, Butterf ly Buddy,
monarch’s host plant, milkweed, garden in the school courtyard. to teach kids about monarchs.
which is the one plant monarchs He teamed up with the Loudoun
need to survive. A Flutter of Butterflies Wildlife Conservancy, a nonprofit
Carter decided to take action. That summer, Carter returned organization, to speak at libraries
For his ninth birthday, he says, “I to the school garden several times and public events.
asked for garden-store gift cards each week to weed. He checked Carter believes that educating
so I could plant a way station.” the milkweed plants for monarch others is the key to helping
A way station is a butterf ly eggs and larvae. When he found monarchs. “When you know more,
garden that contains plants for some, he took them home to raise you care more,” he says.
the monarch in its different life inside to keep them safe from Highlights is proud to know this
stages. Carter planted milkweed predators. Each time a butterf ly Gallant Kid.
Photo by Sarah Steadman.
—Sara Matson

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Goofus or Gallant! Visit
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when I take my dog out when I gave a girl at

without being reminded.” the fair two tickets she Goofus and Gallant Moments
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on a
Hike
By Régine Frank

As Mike hiked with his

family, he wrote about their
day. Later, he noticed that
each sentence contained
an item they took on the
hike! Can you find a hiking
item hidden in each of the
sentences below? Hint: All
the items are in the scene.
EXAMPLE: Like all
good hikers, we left the
trail unchanged. (lunch)

1. Emma planned the route.

2. We stopped to sketch at the bridge.
3. Two squirrels came racing along a log!
4. The whole crew ate raisins for energy.
5. We came upon chopped trees near a beaver dam.
Answers on
6. Our pace had to slow at challenging, rocky parts of the trail. page 38.

Check . . . and Double Check

Compare these two pictures. Can you find at least 18 differences?

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 a w s nd
At an Outdoor Concert P a
Think

Why do people enjoy going

to concerts?
How is music like other kinds
of art? How is it different?
Some musicians use spoons to
make music. What other common
objects could serve as instruments? Mind if I
If you were in this scene, howl along?
what would you be doing?

Art by David Coulson.

 “That’s the wrong money!”

Back in
Time
for
Dessert
By Bradford H. Robie
Art by Tammie Lyon

“I t’s our turn to do dessert!” Fair in

Jed announced while he and his 1964 and
sister, Mia, cleared the dishes. 1965!”
“There’s just one thing: we need “You look
your time machine.” fine, Mia,” Aunt
Uncle Filby raised his Fontana said, initializing the of the United Nations and turn
eyebrows. generator’s start-up sequence. right on Court of Nations, we’ll
“I know,” Jed said. “You prefer “Jed, did you find a safe spot end up at the Belgian Village.”
calling it a wormhole generator.” for the portal?” “Home of Belgian waff les,”
“He’s not questioning your Jed nodded and read off the Mia said, “reportedly the fair’s
terminology,” Aunt Fontana said. longitude and latitude, which most popular treat—and the one
“He’s concerned about our his aunt entered along with the Uncle Filby always talks about!”
electric bill!” time coordinates: 09 August Aunt Fontana urged them to
“We’ll bring back one of your 1965, 14:00. The portal formed get going. “We have only an hour
favorite treats,” Mia promised. and the group stepped through before the portal reappears.”
“And I’ll chaperone,” Aunt what looked like a mirrored ball. Entering the crowded
Fontana said. They felt a familiar prickly walkway, Mia couldn’t help but
“Oh, all right!” Uncle Filby sensation, then shielded their gawk at the funny hairstyles
threw his hands up and grinned eyes from the brilliant f lash and clothes while Jed read from
sheepishly, because he couldn’t that signaled their arrival his map. “There’s Futurama,
say no when it came to his sweet back in time. a ride into the future,” he said
tooth. “But remember—” with a chuckle. “Inside that
“We know,” Jed and Mia “We’ll bring pavilion is Michelangelo’s Pietà.
recited. “‘Don’t be conspicuous!’” And that huge steel globe is
They hurried downstairs to the back one of your the Unisphere.”
laboratory, where their uncle’s favorite treats.” “That globe is in the picture
invention stood quietly humming. of Uncle Filby!” Mia observed.
“I hope these clothes will From where they stood Soon they found themselves
be OK,” Mia said after they’d behind a stand of trees, the in a re-created European village.
changed into the 1960s outfits three time travelers could see Everywhere, it seemed, people
their aunt had provided. throngs of fairgoers strolling were eating thick waff les topped
“I doubt anyone will notice us along a broad sidewalk. “OK,” with powdered sugar, whipped
anyway,” Jed said. “According to Jed said, checking the official cream, and strawberries. Nearby
my research, 51 million people map he’d downloaded before was a crowded stand advertising
visited the New York World’s they left, “if we take the Avenue Belgian waff les.

18 JUNE 2017
 “We’re running out of time!” f lash, they were transported
Aunt Fontana suggested he said nervously. Finally, their to Uncle Filby’s laboratory.
that the kids stand in line while aunt returned, complaining “Dessert’s here!” Mia
she headed to the restroom. about the lines at the restroom. announced, still breathless.
But the line moved quickly, “Sorry, guys,” she said. “We’d Uncle Filby appeared in the
and Jed and Mia were soon better hurry.” But the sidewalks doorway and laughed. “I see
putting in their order. were more crowded than ever, you’re wearing it!” Then his
slowing their progress. Soon the jaw dropped. “Belgian waff les?
“We’re running three broke into a panicky run, My boyhood favorite from the
clutching their waff les and World’s Fair!”
out of time!” dodging fairgoers. When they “Let’s eat!” Aunt Fontana
finally reached the grove of said. Soon everyone was quiet
“Twenty minutes left,” trees, they were breathless, their as they devoured the sweet,
Jed said, checking his watch. clothes smeared with whipped powdery treats.
He handed the cashier a crisp cream and strawberries. “Mmm,” Uncle Filby
five-dollar bill. “If Aunt Fontana “Get ready!” Jed shouted. murmured contentedly.
doesn’t return soon, we’ll miss With just seconds to spare, the “Crunchy on the outside, just
the portal.” portal appeared and they leaped as I remember. And so fresh!”
Mia poked her brother. into the f loating sphere. In a “I hope so.” Jed laughed.
“That’s the wrong money!” “They were made just a few
“Oh no!” Jed said, aghast. In a flash, they minutes ago—in 1965, that is!”
He’d meant to use the vintage
1964 bill he’d brought, which
were transported.
featured Lincoln in the center
of the bill, not a little to the left
as on current five-dollar bills.
“Wait!” He startled the cashier.
“Sorry, I meant to pay with this.”
“I thought it looked odd,” the
woman said, examining the bill.
She swapped bills and gave the
kids their order and change.
Jed checked his watch again.
 Feeling
Funny

“From all the king’s horses

and all the king’s men.”

“Bananas? You prescribe

bananas for everything!”

Sally ’s
Sea-Store “That’s the worst head cold
I’ve ever seen!”
Super Sale By Clare Mishica

Sally’s Sea Store is having its

annual summertime super
sale. Rey wants to buy one
pair of sandals and one pair
of sunglasses. Can you help
her find the best deal? “My dentist says I should
start using a chainsaw.”
Answer on page 38.
So Many
Tiny Toads
By Pat Lessie
Art by Stephanie Dehennin

The is wet. The are gray.

grass clouds

The soft June has gone away.

rain

I bend to see a little ,

rock

but it’s a small on the walk.

toad

Now, in the , I spot some more,

grass

so many I can’t keep score.

toads

These little start out as eggs

toads

then hatch as that grow .

tadpoles legs

New may leave a together

toads pond

during and cloudy weather.

rain

I catch one, then let it go.

I wonder how big these will grow.

toads

JUNE 2017 21
 Clues in
rock layers
show that
water once
f lowed on
Mars.

Will you need to wear a winter

coat on Mars today? This
weather station measures the
temperature, the wind speed

Driving and direction, and even the

barometric pressure. But you
won’t need an umbrella, because
it doesn’t rain on Mars . . . ever!

on Mars
A roving robot named
Curiosity explores the
Red Planet.
By Ken Croswell, Ph.D.

In August 2012, NASA landed the

biggest rover yet on Mars. Named
Curiosity, the robot is roughly the
size of a Mini Cooper car. It weighed
1,982 pounds on Earth but is now Why Mars?
only 748 pounds on Mars because of NASA has sent more
the Red Planet’s lower gravity. spacecraft to Mars than
The spacecraft landed in Gale to any other planet. Mars
Crater, which is 96 miles across—big isn’t the closest planet to
enough to hold Hawaii’s Big Island. At Earth; Venus is. But of all
the crater’s center, Mount Sharp stands the Sun’s planets, Mars
more than three miles high. Scientists is the one whose surface
chose the landing site because they conditions are most like
think water f lowed there billions of Earth’s. So someday
years ago. Water is essential for all life people may travel there.
on Earth, so the crater may have signs Still, Mars is much colder
of ancient life. and drier than Earth, and
The robot can go almost eight feet its atmosphere is thin,
a minute. Since landing, it has traveled with almost no oxygen
nearly 10 miles and sent back results of to breathe.
its many explorations and experiments.

22 JUNE 2017
 Zap! This camera fires a laser
beam at rocks up to 23 feet
away, vaporizing parts of them
so that the spacecraft can see
what they’re made of.

Enjoy the view!

These two cameras
YE take color pictures of
I fo S! the Martian terrain.
Biolog und NO3 !
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ancien er sign
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habita ars=
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The spacecraft
has six big
wheels. Each is
about 20 inches
in diameter. That
helps keep the
A drill and scoop collect rover from
samples. Did Mars once tipping over.
have life? Curiosity has
found all the elements
needed, including
carbon, nitrogen,
oxygen, phosphorus,
and sulfur.

Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Inset of Mars by NASA/JPL-Caltech. JUNE 2017 23

JOKES “Knoc k, kn ock.”
“Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?”
“Who’s there?”
“Avenue.”
“Theodore.” “Avenue who?”
“Theodore who?” Mom: The weather forecast
says there is some “Avenue been
“Theodore locked. ferocious rain outside.
Dad: I’ll say! Forget about
missing me?”
That’s why I had cats and dogs—it’s
Noelle Schnoebelen, Iowa

to knock!” raining dinosaurs!

Carmen Chercover
Waverly Lansford, South Carolina Washington Make us laugh!
Send a joke or riddle, along with your
Silly #1: My nose is running. name, age, and address, to
Silly #2: You’d better catch it! Mom: Why are you staring
Alexa Thompson, California at the orange-juice
container? 803 Church Street
A book never written: Cars and Honesdale, PA 18431
Rob: It says concentrate.
Trucks by Otto Mobile. Sailor Tole, Texas
Ethan, Alabama

Animal
Subtraction
By Barbara J. Barata

Take away letters

from each of the
animal names
below to find
the name of a
different animal.
Super
For example:
FOX - F = OX
Challenge!
Take away on
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and unscram letter
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remaining le
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6. WOLF
Take away Take away Take away 7. LEMUR
ONE letter: TWO letters: THREE letters: 8 . C A ME L
1. BEAGLE 3. HYENA 5. RABBIT 9. COBRA
2. CROW 4. BEAVER Answers on page 38.

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By Kathy Robinson
Art by Keith Fraw
wley
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Put a ball between your knees.

Can you hop across the room
without dropping it? Can you
walk without dropping it?

Pick up a ball from the f loor

using just your elbows.

Sit up straight in a chair. Place a

stuffed animal on your head. Stand
up and walk around without letting
it fall. Can you hop in place?

You’ll need eight coins for this.

Sit on the f loor with your legs
straight. Can you place one coin
in each space between your toes
and hold the coins there? Can you
let them go, one at a time?

Sit down and take off your shoes.

Then, without using your hands, see
if you can take off your socks. If so,
can you put them on again?

Balance on one foot. Can you touch

your lifted knee to your nose? Balance
on the other foot and try it again.

Can you touch your left ear to your

left shoulder? Can you do it on the
right? Can you touch your nose to
each shoulder? JUNE 2017 25
 The
Bluebird “Thank you
for sharing
and the your color
with me!”

Coyote
An Akimel O’odham Folktale
Retold by Tina Tocco
Art by Briony May Smith

During the early days, colors were he was blue like the lake!
just starting to show themselves to the Happily f lapping his new blue wings,
Earth. Only one lake shone bright blue the bird sang,
in the middle of the dull, gray world. “Lake of beauty,
All of Earth’s animals wished they lake of beauty,
could be bright blue, too. thank you for sharing
One day, a coyote hid in the your color with me!”
gray-gray grass along the lake. As The coyote watched the bird soar
he watched a gray-gray bird f lying away. “Blue! I must be blue!” he cried.
nearby, the bird did something strange. So the coyote sang,
He f lew high above the lake and sang, “Lake so blue,
“Lake so blue, lake so blue,
lake so blue, make my fur
make my feathers “Lake so blue, blue like you!”
blue like you!” lake so blue, The coyote dived into the
The bird dived into the make my fur water. And when he came out,
water. And when he came out, blue like you!” he was blue like the lake.
26 JUNE 2017
 “I am beautiful!”

“I am beautiful!” he said. “Wait until As he did, he ran straight into a

the other coyotes see me.” tree stump! The coyote f lew head over
But the coyote was too eager to show tail, head over tail until he landed—
off. He forgot to thank the lake. thump!—in the gray-gray dirt.
When he reached his pack, the coyote
marched in front of his friends. “Who is
The coyote forgot to
the only blue coyote in the world?” he thank the lake.
shouted. “Me!” The coyote shook and shook, but the
With a wag of his blue tail, he dashed gray remained. He dived into the lake,
away, deep into the gray-gray forest, but the gray remained. And when all
to show off his color. He ran through other animals received their colors, the
the gray-gray grass, looking at his legs. coyote’s gray remained, because he had
He ran through the gray-gray trees, forgotten to thank the lake.
looking at his chest and paws. Then And so, for all coyotes, the gray will
he turned to look at his new blue tail. always remain.

He landed—
thump!—in the
gray-gray dirt.

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Make Me Next
Month!

TO PLAY: Put a pile

of 30 sunflower seeds
between the players.
Players take turns
rolling a die and
following the rules
(below). When a player
collects three seeds, he
or she f lies a bird up
to a branch (and then
returns the seeds to the
pile). The first player to

Feed f ly all five birds up into

his or her tree wins.

the Birds RULES:

If you roll a . . .
A Game for 2 to 4 Players Collect 1 seed.

By Edna Harrington Collect 2 seeds.

Collect 3 seeds.
1. For each player, cut out 2. From colored paper,
a square game board cut out leaves and a Put 1 seed back.
and five birds from tree with at least five
Put 2 seeds back.
cardstock. Use markers branches. Glue a tree to
to add details to the birds. each game board. Fly a bird back to
the ground.

Red
Father’s Day Napkin Rings
napkin By April Theis

1. For the tie, cut a ring from 2. For the bat, tape a strip of
a cardboard tube. Glue on cardstock to a tube. Make a
cardstock for the knot and baseball from cardstock and
shirt collar. Add buttons. markers. Glue it to the bat.

30 JUNE 2017 Craft samples by Buff McAllister. Photos by Guy Cali Associates, Inc.,
except dice by iStock/TokenPhoto.
Sunglasses Case
By Gabriele Teich
1. Cut a 61/2 -inch square 2. Use ribbon and a
from craft foam. Fold large-eyed needle to
it in half. Punch holes sew the case together.
along one short side and Glue on craft-foam
the long open side. decorations.

Samarkand
Mosque Tile
By Lisa Haag Kang

Samarkand is an
ancient city in present-
day Uzbekistan. One of
its rulers, Timur, had
many grand structures
built. One was the Bibi
Khanum Mosque, which
still stands today. The
mosque is covered in
beautiful ceramic tiles
with detailed designs
in every shade of blue.

1. Paint an 8- or 9-inch square of thin wood blue.

2. Select or cut at least four 7-inch squares from different shades
of blue origami paper. Set one aside to use as a base.
3. Fold each square in half to form a triangle. Fold it in half
two more times, making the triangle smaller and smaller.
4. Holding the center point, cut the triangle into a diamond or
petal shape. Unfold it to form a star. Create different-sized
stars by cutting closer to the center point on each triangle.
5. Glue the stars together, with the smallest one on top. Glue
Brown the design to the square paper base. Let the glue dry.
napkin 6. Glue the paper tile on top of the wood. Attach a ribbon hanger.

Craft Challenge! Build a miniature castle

using only objects found in your bedroom.

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 She is
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Baseball’s
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GIRL
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In 1904, teenager
Amanda Clement
became baseball’s first
paid female umpire.

By Glenna Marra

T welve-year-old Amanda
Clement raced to the ballpark
across the street from her house
in Hudson, South Dakota. She
couldn’t wait to join her brother, scheduled to play a game before Managers began to
Hank, and the boys for a game the semipro teams. Amanda
of baseball. agreed to be the umpire. Little
ask for her first
Would they let her play? She did she know she’d be making when they needed
could throw, run, and bat as well baseball history that day.
as any of them, but they let her As Amanda finished the
an umpire.
play only when they needed her. morning game, she saw two where umpires stood. She was
She would probably have to men walking toward her. To about to become the first female
umpire again. At least she’d be her surprise, they were the paid to umpire a baseball game.
part of the game. Amanda knew managers of the semipro teams. “Strike!” “Ball!” “Safe!” “Out!”
all the rules, and the boys could They were impressed with her Amanda was calm and confident
count on her. umpiring and wanted her to call and made her calls fairly. She
Over the next few years, local the afternoon championship was “right on the spot,” watching
teams began asking her to call game. They would even pay her. closely as each play was made.
their games, too. One summer News of Amanda’s expert
day in 1904, Amanda and her Making History umpiring spread. Newspaper
mother traveled to Hawarden, The large crowd watched in reporters said that she “knows
Iowa, to watch Hank pitch in the disbelief as the 5-foot-10-inch her baseball book,” is “the
championship semiprofessional 16-year-old took her position possessor of an eagle eye,” and
game. Two local teams were behind the pitcher’s mound, “is absolutely fair.” Managers

32 JUNE 2017 Photo and newspaper clippings from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Background art by iStock/bphillips. Sports icons by iStock/RLT_Images.
 Star Athlete

At college, Amanda
was a tennis
champion, track
star, and captain of
her basketball team.

275 FEET

In 1912 , she threw

a baseball 275 feet,
rd.
setting a world reco

And she worked in all kinds of

weather. She took special pride
“You’ve got to have in umpiring a game that lasted
17 innings on a day when the
conf idence in your heat reached 100 degrees. The
ability or you won’t game ended in a tie at sundown.
Umpiring suited Amanda.
do well at anything.” “It isn’t as easy as it looks,
began to ask for her first when but for all that, there is a good
they needed an umpire. deal of enjoyment in the work.
Amanda was popular with shirt with “UMPS” on the front. Of course the players kick
the fans, too. She “makes a hit In those early days of sometimes, just awfully, but not
with the crowd when she throws baseball, crowds threw bottles when I’m umpiring. . . . You’ve
up her right arm and shouts, at male umpires and shouted got to have confidence in your
‘Stee-rike,’” wrote a reporter. At insults like “Kill the umpire!” ability or you won’t do well at
one game, the spectators weren’t But Amanda usually received anything.”
happy with the umpire and polite comments such as Amanda’s career as an
insisted on replacing him with “Beg your pardon, Miss Umpire, umpire lasted six years. She
Amanda. They decided to collect but wasn’t that one a bit high?” called about 50 games each
the money to pay her and hired And if a player was unruly, she summer and was paid a top fee
a car to take her to the game. wasn’t afraid to stand up to him for the time, $15 to $25 a game.
Amanda became a big or take action. Once, she threw With her earnings, Amanda paid
attraction. Posters that said out six players in a game. for college, where she studied
“The Only Lady Umpire in the physical education.
World” drew large crowds to A Tough Job Many years later, other
games. She made “an inspiring Being an umpire was hard women followed in Amanda’s
sight on the base ball diamond.” work. Amanda made all the calls footsteps as umpires. Today,
Her uniform was a white blouse, for the entire game. She couldn’t women are referees in
blue ankle-length skirt, cap, and take a break and go to the professional soccer, basketball,
black necktie. Later she wore a dugout as the players did. football, and tennis.

JUNE 2017 33
 Mermaids are pretty
Your Own and fun.
But one thing they can’t do
Pages is run!
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Red paint splatters, It starts to scream.
Then it hops away,
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with my dad!
Exploring under water
is exciting.
It’s the most fun
Sisterhood
I have ever had.
Having a sister is a real treat,
Looking under rocks
especially when you tick le her feet
and finding fish. .
Colorful fish are all Mars You watch her laugh and watch
her cry,
over the place! you even watch her childhood go
I’m on Mars. by.
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I love to do. I’m really on Mars. but still you love her with all you
I can’t wait to go r might.
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is hollow. If it weren’t
hollow, the bike would be
heavier, which would make

Wheely it harder to lift.

Moving
A fun way to travel or an efficient
machine? A bicycle is both! As you
pedal, its parts work together to transfer Crank arms attach
force from the moving pedals to the the pedals to a big
tires, to give you speed sprocket called
and distance. the chain ring.

The
moving
chain
turns a
sprocket
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rear
wheel, Teeth on the
rotating that chain ring grip
wheel. and move the chain.

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noise caused by lightning.
Lightning’s electrical surge is
so hot that it superheats the air in
the “channel” or pathway it flashes
through to temperatures five times
hotter than the surface of the Sun.
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expand. And when they get very hot

Why does thunder make noise?

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 Koreaceratops Tall,
flattened
tail
koh-REE-ah-SAYR-ah-tops
“horned head from Korea”
By Dougal Dixon
Art by Robert Squier

Koreaceratops is the first horned

dinosaur found on the Korean
Picture the big
Let’s gear making
one full turn, so
peninsula. Early horned
dinosaurs like Koreaceratops

Go, that its white

tooth ends up in
were small and likely
moved on their hind Likely

Gears! the same place.

Which would
legs. Their later North
American relatives, like
a fast
runner
Triceratops, walked
turn more times,
on four legs and
the big gear
were much
or the little one?
larger. Tail possibly
Answer on used for
page 38. swimming,
signaling, or
Tight temperature
spokes control
connect
the center
of the The bones
wheel with Probably had
of the lower
the rim. a beak (based
body were
on related
Spokes that found but
dinosaurs)
cross over not the
one another upper body
or skull.
help strengthen
the wheel.

together. Almost as quickly, the

superheated air cools and rushes WHERE: HOW LONG: WHAT IT ATE:
back. This extremely energetic South Korea 5 to 6 feet Plants
push-and-pull, which happens in
a split second, sets off a shock wave
of vibrating air, which turns into a
sound wave as it slows.
We may hear a nearby shock wave
as a loud bang. Continued rumbling WHEN:
happens as vibrations from farther
103 million years ago
away on the lightning bolt (which
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 Which
Fits? D
RI DL ES
By Rebecca J. Gomez
Which of these shapes completes
the baby sea turtle’s eggshell? Why did the monster eat
1 the light bulb?
Christopher, New York
A B

When should you be

afraid of a cat?
2
Tiffany La m, North Carolina

C D
Why did the boy put a
3 candy under his pillow?
Nauman Alam, Texas
Answer below.

page 24 el’s favorite

What is a squirr 4
Animal Subtraction instrument?
Answers 1. EAGLE. 2. COW. 3. HEN. 4. BEAR.
5. RAT. 6. OWL. 7. MULE. 8. CLAM.
Kyle Johnson, Ne
w Jersey

9. CRAB (or BOAR).

page 2 page 36 5 What did the

Fun This Month
Reel It In—She can catch #1 or #5.
Mystery Photo —Sunglasses.
My Sci
Let’s Go, Gears! —The little blue gear
would turn more times.
astronaut
page 16 page 38 see in his
Mike on a Hike
1. Emma planned the route.
2. We stopped to sketch at the bridge.
Which Fits?
Shape A completes the eggshell. frying pan?
3. Two squirrels came racing along a log!
page 43 Jaren Denius, Ohio

4. The whole crew ate raisins for energy. Picture Puzzler

5. We came upon chopped trees near a What keeps rock stars cool?
beaver dam. Jacey Wilson, Missouri
6
6. Our pace had to slow at challenging,
rocky parts of the trail.
Bonus! There are 10 squirrels in the scene.
What do you call a woolly
page 20 7 mammoth that knits?
Sally’s Sea-Store Super Sale Colin Beach, Mississippi
Best deal: buy the green sunglasses and
get sandals free for a total cost of $20.
What kind of stories
do
boats like best?
James Tiffany, Pe
nnsylvania 8
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Verse credit: Page 7: “The City” from Poems 1934–1969 © 1969 by David Ignatow. Published by Wesleyan
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University Press. Used by permission. Illustration credits: Page 2: Kevin Zimmer; 6: Erin Mauterer, except (moon
and stars) iStock/Quality-illustrations, (paint stroke) iStock/enjoynz, (music notes) iStock/Aaltazar; 16: Mike on a
dance m ov e?
Hike by Luke Flowers, Check . . . and Double Check by Joey Ellis; 20: Sally’s Sea-Store Super Sale by Pat Lewis;
24: Jokes by Rich Powell, Animal Subtraction by Christina Brown; 28–29: (background) iStock/MimaCZ; 28:
(sunglasses) iStock/Dezein, (smile) iStock/Polar_lights; 36: Josh Lewis; 37: iStock/Rangga-Wijaya; 38: Scott
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5. An unidentified frying object. 6. Their fans.
he wanted sweet dreams. 4. The acorn-dion.
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more we realized how much we

had in common. We decided to
get together over the weekend,
and the incredible coincidences

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called Spit (which, in case you’re
restaurant, Hunan Garden,” wondering, has nothing to do
Dear Giving Up, I said. with actual spit).
If you asked my friend “I don’t think so,” she said. A few days later, I got a phone
Mareya that question, I’m “I’ve never even heard of call from Mareya, who’d been
hoping her answer would be Hunan Garden. But guess out of town for a while.
“Never!”—because there was what! My favorite restaurant “Oh my gosh!” she said.
a time I accidentally made is Chinese, too.” “You wouldn’t believe how
her feel the way you’re feeling I smiled. “Your favorite amazing Florida was! There
now. And I would have been ice-cream f lavor doesn’t happen were alligators and strange-
heartbroken if she’d given up to be cookie dough, does it?” looking trees. My aunt took us
on our friendship. to the beach every day, and the
The time was just after I’d The more we ocean is at least nine zillion
met a girl named Madison at my times warmer than it is here
swim lesson. I don’t know about talked, the more we in San Francisco. So you can
you, but it usually takes me a realized how much stay in it for more than five
while to become friends with minutes without turning into
someone. But everything was we had in common. an icicle. Oh, and I brought you
different when I met Madison. something. I don’t want to give
From the moment we started “Are you a mind reader?” away the surprise, but I will tell
talking, we both had this weird she asked. “Cookie dough is you that it’s hard and colorful
feeling we’d met before. my absolute number-one and just might have been a little
“Maybe we’ve seen each ice-cream f lavor!” sea creature’s home. Can we get
other at my favorite Chinese The more we talked, the together tomorrow?”

40 JUNE 2017
 “Um, all right, I guess,” It wasn’t until
Mareya said.
But the weekend turned out Monday that I
to be so busy with family things remembered to call
that it wasn’t until Monday that I
remembered to call Mareya back. Mareya back.
I went to her house, and she gave
me the most beautiful seashell. And luckily for me, she did!
When I gave her a huge hug, she So, dear Giving Up, please don’t
burst into tears. give up right away. Remember
“What’s wrong?” I asked, that even the best friendships go
“I’m hanging out completely surprised. up and down over time. There’s a
with Madison “I thought maybe you good chance your friend doesn’t
were done being friends,” she realize how you’re feeling right
tomorrow.” said, sniff ling. now, and a heart-to-heart might
“What?” I said. “Why in the help her understand. On the other
world would you think that?” hand, if you talk to your friend
Any considerate friend would “You acted like you didn’t and nothing changes, maybe it’s
have said, “I’m so glad you’re back. even care about seeing me,” she OK to let go of that particular
Yes, let’s get together right away!” explained. “I thought you were friendship and move on.

Ciao for now,

Unfortunately, I said, “I’m replacing me with Madison!”
sorry, but I’m hanging out with “I could never replace you!”

Arizona
this girl Madison tomorrow.” I shrieked. “I am so, so sorry.
“Oh. OK,” said Mareya. “What Do you think you can ever
about Friday?” forgive me?”
“I already made plans to have “I’ll think about it,” she said
a sleepover with Madison on with a mischievous smile.
Friday,” I said cluelessly. “But I’ll
call you over the weekend so we
can hang out!”

“I thought you were

replacing me!”

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 Dear
Highlights
I get super
nervous when I love collecting things, but I
don’t know how to keep
I play piano my collection organized.
in front of my Do you have any tips?
teacher. At home, Emma, Minnesota

Depending on the items

I play fine. Any you’re collecting, there are lots
thoughts? of possibilities for organizing
your collection. Stamp
Nettie (by e-mail)
collectors have stamp books.
Try thinking about what’s making you feel nervous. Do you Coin collectors use special
feel underprepared? In that case, a little extra practice time albums. Some people arrange
before a lesson might make you feel more confident in front action figures on a shelf, while
of your teacher. others place ticket stubs,
Are you nervous that your teacher will be disappointed postcards, and other mementos
or harsh? Then perhaps adjusting your thoughts will help. in scrapbooks.
Remember that your teacher is on your team. It’s OK to make Perhaps you can organize
mistakes in a lesson, because you and your teacher will work the things you’ve collected in
on them together. You might wish to tell your teacher how you a scrapbook, on a shelf, or in a
feel. He or she may be able to put your mind at ease. special box. Then go through
You can also ask your parents or other music students for your collection from time to
their advice on how to feel calmer during lessons. time and think about whether
you want to keep every item.
Keeping only your favorite
items and letting the others go
will help keep your collection
At my camp, people keep uncluttered and organized.
saving seats at lunchtime, Your parents might also
and my friends and I have suggestions for you about
have nowhere to sit. where and how you can store
What should I do? your collection.
Anirudh, Texas

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Bird Is the Word
There are 20 HIDDEN BIRDS in this scene.
Can you find them all?
Fowl Play

What do you call

a funny chicken?
A comedi-hen.

What do you call

a thin bird?
A narrow sparrow.

Why did the duck

become a spy?
He was good at
quacking codes.

What do you call

a seagull that flies
over a bay?
A bagel.

What did the rooster say

to the cow?
“Cock-a-doodle-moo!”

Why did the ostrich

cross the road?
To catch up with
the chicken.

How did the chickens

leave the highway?
They went through
the eggs-it.

Art by Dave Klug.

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By Nicola Tanner
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Rat-a-tat-tat!
Mole put down his broom and opened
the door. There stood Chipmunk.
“May I borrow a ladder, Mole?” asked
Chipmunk. “I want to finish cleaning my
windows in time for our fishing trip.”
Mole looked at the jumble in his “Thank you, Mole. It will be a
tunnel. He crawled past candles and wonderful afternoon for fishing when
cans and found a ladder. my house is clean.”
“Thank you, Mole. It will be a “I’d love to join you, but I am still in
wonderful afternoon for fishing when quite a mess,” said Mole.
the cleaning is done.” If only I had more space, he thought
“Yes,” said Mole. “But my house is as Rabbit left.
very hard to keep tidy.” He was sorting chair legs when he
I should throw this stuff out, thought heard another knock.
Mole as Chipmunk left. But what if one
of my friends needs something? Rat-a-tat-tat!
He was stacking oars against the “Do you have a hammer, Mole?”
wall when he heard a knock. Badger asked. “My f loorboards need
repairing.”
Rat-a-tat-tat! Mole stepped past saws and springs
“Hello, Mole. Do you have a and found a hammer.
screwdriver?” asked Rabbit. “I’m
spring-cleaning, and my mop handle
has broken.”
Mole pushed past pots and potato
What can Mole do
peelers and found a screwdriver. about all his clutter?
 “May I borrow a
ladder, Mole?”

“Thank you, Mole. It will be a are back, he thought.

wonderful afternoon for fishing when When he stepped outside his tunnel,
this last job is done.” he saw a small wooden building that
“I think that I must finish cleaning had not been there that morning.
instead,” said Mole. He lifted the knocker.
Badger left, and Mole tried again to
clean his very cluttered house. Rat-a-tat-tat!
It was too late for fishing when he The door opened, and out stepped
finally stopped. I will see if my friends Chipmunk, Rabbit, and Badger.
“We didn’t want to go fishing without
you,” said Chipmunk.
Where had this
“If your house were emptier, your
building come cleaning would be faster,” said Rabbit.
from? “But you always have just the things
we need.”
“So we built this shed for you,”
said Badger.
“Do you have some things we can
help put away?” asked Chipmunk.
“I believe I do,” said Mole, and he
danced over to his own front door.
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some of their ideas. outside to play, my mom
takes my little brother and
me down to the bottom of
our apartment’s parking
garage to roller-skate. Each
Why Painting Is Fun time that I practice skating,
When I am bored, I draw or I get better.
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paint. It helps me get my feelings
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I live on a dairy farm. When I do not have time to be bored.
Funny Baby Pictures get bored, I like to go to the barn. At our art show, we put
My favorite thing to do I play on the hay bales, and I also pictures on the walls and our
to beat boredom is to look like to play with my dog. It is fun crafts on the table! We play
through photo albums and to drive the skid loader. I help my music and serve drinks and
pictures from when I was a grandma feed the calves, and I help snacks. I always have a
little baby. My mom would my grandpa round up the cows. terrific time.
tell me about them. They My favorite thing is to fill up the Jhenea
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When I was in pre-K, I
Stars in the Sunshine would count the things in
When I am bored, I like to do crafts with the classroom during rest
paper. My favorite craft is to make stars. time. In a few months, I had
I like to do my crafts out in the sunshine counted over 5,000 things in
with my two dogs, Zoe and Cody. Here the classroom. I can count
is one of the stars I made. anytime, as long as there
are things around me.
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 The Famous
Red-Eyed
Tree
Frog By Chris Dietel

It’s fun to meet someone Tropical Creatures

famous, even if that Ms. Sakowicz’s frogs were bred
“someone” isn’t a person. in captivity, but their natural
I had seen pictures of home is in the tropical rain forests
the red-eyed tree frog in all of Central America. Red-eyed tree
kinds of places—books, frogs are not endangered, but their
calendars, posters, magazines, habitat is shrinking as people cut
and even on T-shirts. What down rain forests to make room
a celebrity! for farms and buildings.
Then I met Joanna Sakowicz, In the wild, the frogs live where
who is an expert frog keeper. tall trees grow high over dense
And I met some red-eyed tree vegetation. Rain falls often, and
frogs “in person.” the air stays hot and moist.
Red-eyed Reaching into a tall cage, Ms. The frogs have many features
tree frogs clim Sakowicz revealed a sleeping frog that help them survive in the
b
on plants and huddled on the underside of a leaf. forest. The frogs’ large toe pads act
trees at night, These frogs are nocturnal. They’re like suction cups to help them climb
hunting active at night, and they sleep among the trees as they hunt for
for insects during the day. As this one awoke, insects to eat. Their skin turns dark
to eat. its big red eyes opened. I was at night, making them less visible
face-to-face with one of the world’s to both predators and prey. When
most beautiful species of frogs. daylight comes, their skin lightens
Ms. Sakowicz lives in California, to pale green for better camouflage
where she takes her frogs to among the leaves.
schools to teach kids about wildlife When a frog huddles on a leaf
and the environment—especially to sleep, it hides its bright colors.
the rain forest. Its big red eyes sink into hollow

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drink and keep their skin moist.
Keeping red
red-eyed
eyed tree frogs
spaces in its head, and it tucks first must “gut load” the crickets,
healthy takes a lot of work.
its legs underneath its body. which means she lets the crickets
Ms. Sakowicz must keep the cage
When Ms. Sakowicz nudges feast on grains and vegetables so
warmer than her home because
a sleeping frog, its big red eyes they will be healthy. From time to
the rain forest is warmer than
bulge out and open, and its time, she also dusts the crickets
“room” temperature. To do this,
colorful, lanky legs emerge from with a vitamin powder before
she uses a heat lamp at the top
under its soft body. dropping them into the cage.
of the cage. She must also spray
Why does the red-eyed tree Ms. Sakowicz tells kids how
mist into the cage to keep the air
frog have bright colors? There her frogs climb about at night
humid, as it is in the rain forest.
are many possibilities. Maybe hunting for food. It’s fun to
predators that try to eat a sleeping watch the frogs in the dim light,
Frog Food snatching crickets with their
frog don’t expect to see such bright Wild frogs eat a variety
colors when the frog wakes up. short, sticky tongues. With a
of rain-forest insects, so it’s
This f lash of color may startle a healthy diet and habitat, the frogs
tough to make sure that captive
predator just long enough for the can grow to two and a half inches
frogs get the right nutrients.
frog to leap to safety. long and may live several years.
Ms. Sakowicz can’t use insects
People love these frogs so much
from her backyard to feed the
A Tiny Rain Forest that the amphibians have become
frogs. Those insects may contain
These frogs are so well adapted a symbol of the effort to save the
parasites or small traces of
to rain-forest life that they can’t world’s remaining rain forests.
poisons, such as insecticides.
survive anywhere else unless These forests are a precious
Instead, Ms. Sakowicz uses
someone takes care of them. habitat for thousands of species of
insects that are specially bred for
At her home, Ms. Sakowicz has plants and animals, including the
captive reptiles and amphibians.
created a rain-forest environment famous red-eyed tree frog.
She gives tiny flies to young
in a tall cage, using tree branches, frogs, and she gives
mosses, tropical plants, and a crickets to
small tub of purified water. This adults. She
way she can watch the frogs do
many of the same things they do
in the wild—such as climb, hunt

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