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can color. who seem sad. Fun picks

7 Night’s Canvas 12 Potato-Salad Clues from kids.

An art show in the sky What’s the missing ingredient? 21 Paws

on the Fourth of July. and
14 Hidden Pictures®
Think
8 Butterflies in Puzzle
Check
Disguise Flamingo ring toss and
out an
Now you see them; picnic food.
important
now you don’t.
15 Jokes building in
“Ashley who?” U.S. history.

16 Crafts 22 Ice-a-
Make a patriotic crown licious!
that glows! Enjoy
five twists
18 My Sci on a cool
A geode’s crystals build up summer
over thousands of years. treat.
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34 Lighting the
Night Sky
24 Your Own Pages One of the biggest fireworks
displays in history.
See more creative work
by kids like Addie.
37 The Timbertoes®
40 Ask Arizona®
No one seems to respect
26 Lydia Darragh’s Spiffing up the tree house. Arizona’s stuff.
Secret Mission
Lydia had to warn the
38 Riddles 43 Picture Puzzler
Which kind of bagel can fly? Double o’s at the pool.
American soldiers quickly.

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Night’s Canvas
By Diana Murray i Art by Mike Petrik

Waiting for the show to start—

To turn night’s canvas into art. . . .

Crackle, BOOM!
Streaks of red
And bright white
Flash overhead.

Bursts of blue,
Splashing high!
Independence
Paints the sky.

JULY 2017 7
Butterflies
Story and
in
Photos
by Bryan
Reynolds

They can
change their
looks with a
flip of their
wings.

The picture above shows the Question
Mark butterf ly with its wings open.
When the insect f lasheshes
these bright colors, itt lets other
butterf lies know where it is.
The picture at rightt shows
the same butterf ly witth
its wings up.
Now the butterf ly
looks like a leaf or a
8 JULY 2017
rock or a piece of tree bark. A hungry
bi may not even see the butterf ly!
Th s dull coloring, which helps
the utterf ly blend in with
its surroundings, is called
camouflage. Many
other butterf lies also
have camouf lage on the
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A hungry bird may no
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even see the butterfly!
 Match the
Disguise Butterflies!
A

1 Goatweed
Leafwing

2 American
Snout

You can see four of these

butterf lies at right. The left
3 Mourning Cloak
column shows the butterf lies
with their bright colors showing.
The right column shows the
D
same butterf lies with their
wings lifted up. The pictures
are mixed up. Can you match
each camouf laged butterf ly
to its brightly colored self ?
4 Pearl Crescent
Twig photo by iStock/Ivanastar.
Answers: 1-B. 2-D. 3-A. 4-C.
 Goaondfus There’s some of Goofus and Gallant in us all.
When the Gallant shines through, we show our best self.

Gallant
®

“I hope your cough gets

better soon,” says Gallant.
Idea sent in by
Heather Hess, Age 10, Pennsylvania

“That loud cough is really

annoying!” says Goofus.
Idea sent in by
Heather Hess, Age 10, Pennsylvania

“Joe seems sad lately. May I invite

him to game night?” says Gallant.

“Let’s not invite Ali to play. She’s

no fun anymore,” says Goofus.

YOUR Goofus and Gallant Moments Tell us when you’ve felt like
Goofus or Gallant! Visit
“I felt like Goofus when “I felt like Gallant when HighlightsKids.com or write to

I didn’t give back my I picked up the beads from

friend’s shoe.” my sister’s necklace that Goofus and Gallant Moments
Arlo, Age 6 broke.” 803 Church Street
British Columbia, Canada Honesdale, PA 18431
Anna, Age 8, New York

10 JULY 2017 Art by Leslie Harrington.

 BONUS!
How ma
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and cat
items ca
you find n
in the
house?

House
Tour
By Radha HS
Start at the arrow and find a
path through the house, passing
through each room only once.
You do not need to exit. Simply
stop in the last room you visit.
Answers on page 38.

Check . . . and Double Check

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

JULY 2017 11

Potato-Salad
Clues
By Melissa Bulls
Art by Aaron Zenz
It was time for the annual Potato-Salad
Contest in Russet Park.
“Do you think you’ll win the Golden
Potato again?” asked Alexis’s younger
sister, Brianna.
Alexis shook her head sadly.
“Grandpa isn’t here to help this year.”
“I’ll help you,” Brianna said.
The girls mixed boiled potato chunks,
mustard, mayonnaise, and a little salt
and pepper in a bowl.
“It doesn’t taste right,” Alexis said
after she tried a bite of the salad.
“What’s missing?”
“Something spicy?” said Mom.
12 JULY 2017
“What’s
missing?”
“Your grandpa loved spicy things.”
“You’re right! Maybe he put a
jalapeño pepper in it,” Alexis said.
Mom cut up a bright green jalapeño
and added it to the bowl.
“It’s closer, but it still doesn’t taste
right,” Alexis said.
“Are you making Grandpa’s famous
potato salad?” Dad asked.
“Grandpa isn’t here
to help this year.”
“We’re trying,” Alexis said. “But we’re
missing some ingredients. Should we
look in a cookbook?”
“Grandpa was never one to follow
a recipe,” Dad said.
It was true. People loved Grandpa’s
potato salad because it was one of a
 “Maybe we’ll find
kind. Alexis remembered posing clues in here.”
with Grandpa for a photo after
they won last year.
Photo. That gave her an idea.
She hurried to the bookcase and
found an old photo album. “Maybe we’ll
find clues in here,” she said, opening it.
Lots of pictures showed Grandma
and Grandpa cooking together. One
showed Grandpa pretending to carve Alexis shouted. She ran to the cabinet
Grandma’s turkey with a saw. In and grabbed an onion.
another, Grandma was patting “Will you chop this, Dad?” she asked.
Grandpa’s face with f lour, leaving After Alexis added the onion, the
white handprints all over. family tasted the potato salad and
smiled. They’d finally figured out
“I know the final Grandpa’s recipe.
secret ingredient!” “Let’s get this salad to the contest,”
Dad said.
Dad laughed. “He and Grandma Alexis was thinking about Grandpa
loved to tease each other, but he as the judges announced the winner.
always called her Honey.” “This year’s Golden Potato goes to . . .
“Do you think he put honey in Alexis Roberts!”
the potato salad?” Brianna asked. “Alexis, why are you crying?”
“It’s worth a try,” said Alexis. Brianna asked.
She stirred some honey into the bowl. “Oh, just because of the onions,”
But it still wasn’t quite right. Alexis said, hugging the Golden
Dad f lipped through the album. Potato to her chest.
One photo showed Grandpa fishing.
“Do you think he put fish in his “This year’s Golden Potato
potato salad?” Alexis asked, smiling. goes to . . .”
Brianna laughed. “No way!”
At the end of the album was the
picture of Grandpa and Alexis
holding the Golden Potato. It looked
like Grandpa was crying.
“Well, he did say the potato salad
brought tears to his eyes,” Dad said.
“I know the final secret ingredient!”
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picture
It’s All Food and Games
By Jennifer Harney

In this big picture, find the carrot, baseball cap, traffic cone, question mark, snake, musical note, flag, heart,
open book, banana, ice pop, artist’s brush, hot dog and bun, diamond ring, screwdriver, and hairbrush.

14 JULY 2017 Check out our Hidden Pictures app!

 JOKES
Picture Clues

baseball “Knock, knock.”

carrot
cap “Who’s there?”
“Ashley.”
“Ashley who?” Angelina:
g What’s your
y favorite
traffic kind of tree?
cone ged m y Jason: A palm tree.
“Ashley I chan d to Angelina: Mine’s a poet-tree.
mind. I don’t n
ee Angelina Kliewer, California

snake question come in.” Mom: Did you pick up your

mark Sianna Shrief, Spain
room?
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson Ben: I tried, but I couldn’t lift it.
went camping. In the middle of the Jack Gurnish, Ohio

open night, Sherlock woke Watson and said, A book never written:
book “Look up. What do you see?” Ionic and Covalent Bonds
Watson replied, “I see millions
musical by Molly Cules.
of stars.” Ava Perlin, Maryland
note flag Sherlock said, “And what do you
deduce from that?”
heart Watson answered, “Among the Make us laugh!
stars are planets, and some of those Send a joke or riddle, along with
planets might be like Earth. Therefore, your name, age, and address, to
there may be life among the stars.”
“No,” said Sherlock. “It means that
banana our tent blew away.” 803 Church Street
Honesdale, PA 18431
Ian, Illinois
ice pop
artist’s
brush
Silly Tilly’s Garden
hot dog Silly Tilly loves the veggies
and bun in her garden patch.
diamond She keeps her eggplants safe and warm
ring and hopes someday they’ll hatch.

She sings to every ear of corn

hairbrush and pats each cabbage head,
screwdriver then tucks her baby carrots
in their cozy garden bed.
—Diana Murray

BONUS
Can you also
f ind the golf club,
teacup, crayon,
and feather?

Answers on HighlightsKids.com. JULY 2017 15

Crafts Make This
Next Month!

Lady
Liberty
Crown
By Gabriele Teich

1. Cut out a 4-inch circle

from a paper plate.
Cut 11/2 -inch-long slits
every 1/2 inch to make
24 tabs. Remove every
second tab, as shown.
2. Repeat step 1 with a
second plate.
3. Bend the 12 tabs on
each plate, line them
up as shown in the big
photo, and glue them
together. Let them dry.
4. Paint the crown. Cut
seven triangles from a
paper plate. Glue them
to the top of the crown.
Bend them upward.
5. Tape a glow stick
around the crown.

Woodland Message Board

By Marie E. Cecchini
1. Cover thin cardboard with green cardstock.
Add a cardstock canoe, river, and leaves.
2. Glue on twigs for tree trunks. Add a twig at the top.
3. Punch two holes, and add a yarn hanger.
4. Tie a pencil to the top twig. Glue on a notepad.

Craft samples by Buff McAllister. Art by Holly Hatam. Photos by Guy Cali Associates, Inc., except
dog and boy photo inset by iStock/PeopleImages and clothespin by iStock/kevinmayer.
 Seashell
Critters
By Anne Renaud
1. Paint several seashells.
2. From craft foam, cut out fins,
tentacles, and legs. Glue them to
the shells. Add wiggle eyes.
3. Using cardstock and markers,
create a beach setting. Place
the sea critters on it.

Tangram Can you

re-create
these in 10
Race seconds?
A Game for 2
or More Players
By Denise Etheridge

A tangram is an ancient
Chinese puzzle. The object
is to arrange seven shapes,
called tans, into a design.
All seven
pieces must be
used without
overlapping.
TO PLAY: One player makes a design
1. Using the diagram using his or her tans while the other players
at right, cut out look away. Once the design is finished, the
seven pieces from other players race to see who can re-create
scrapbook paper the design with their own tans the fastest.
yer
for each player. Each pla The winner gets one point. If there are only
2. Use sheets of gets the two players, the player receives a point if
ven
cardstock as same se he or she can re-create the design in less
game boards. shapes. than 10 seconds. The player who reaches
10 points first wins.

Craft Challenge! What can you make

out of clothespins, string, and beads?

JULY 2017 17
 Large coarse-grained The crystals point inward as

MY SC crystals form inside.

They can be made of
different minerals,
they build up over thousands
of years. They are able to
grow large because of the
depending on what open space in the pocket.
Spotlight was dissolved in
the water.

Buried
Treasure
This sparkly splendor is a geode
(JEE-ode), a round or oval rock
with mineral crystals inside.
It forms within a gas
pocket in volcanic rock
or within a space left
by dissolved minerals in
sedimentary rock.
Rock is made of
minerals. As water flows
through holes and cracks
in rock, it dissolves some
of the minerals. Dissolved
minerals may deposit on
the walls of the gas pocket,
forming crystals. Often, the crystals
are quartz—one of the most common
minerals in the earth’s crust.

It looks impenetrable, but

the geode’s outer layer, or The rind is
rind, has tiny pores that made of tiny
allow in mineral-rich water. quartz crystals.

Pitch Puzzle
These glasses have different
amounts of water (with color added so
the water is easier to see). Which glass
will make a higher-pitched sound
when tapped with a pencil—the one
with less water or the one with more?
Think of your best answer, then try
the experiment. Were you right? Read
our explanation in Answers on page 38.

18 JULY 2017
How do volcanoes erupt?
Sofia and Nati (by e-mail)

Volcanoes erupt because pressure of magma (hot melted

rock) underground becomes greater than the strength of
the rock above it, so magma forces its way out as an
eruption. Like other bodies in our solar system, Earth is
hot inside and cool at the surface. The differences in
temperature can cause rock inside to shift. That can make
it melt. Melted rock—and the gas bubbles within it—rise,
increasing the pressure. It can spurt out through cracks or
weak spots in the surface.

Tyrannotitan
Probably the top
predator in its
environment
By Dougal Dixon
Art by Robert Squier Saw-edged
teeth could slice
tie-RAN-oh-TIE-ten
“giant tyrant” through meat
but not crush
Tyrannotitan is the earliest-known big bones
meat eater from the Southern Hemisphere.
It was as big as the huge tyrannosaurs
in the Northern Hemisphere but wasn’t Tiny
related to them. arms

WHERE:
Argentina

Early relative of
Giganotosaurus
(another South
HOW LONG: American
40 feet meat eater)

WHAT IT ATE:
Other dinosaurs

252 201 145 66 Present

WHEN:
110 million years ago Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic
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“When Drawn by Henrietta by
they Ricardo Siri Liniers. In the
knock on book, Henrietta reads a book
the magic that says, “A book is like a
world you can carry around
mirror with you,” which inspires
three her to make her own book. I
times, really like it, and you will, too!
it sucks
them into
a fairy
tale.” “Both books are very
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My favorite book is
Beauty Queen in the
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a girl named Abby and her Women and Little Men by Louisa
little brother, Jonah, and May Alcott. I especially like Little
they have a magic mirror in Women because the Marches have
their basement. When they four girls just like my family. The
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 a w s nd
Independence Hall P a
Think

The Declaration of Independence

and the U.S. Constitution were
signed in this building in the
late 1700s. Why are these
documents important?
Why do people visit places
where important things in
history happened? Does that
How can you find out more about clock say it’s
Independence Hall and other lunchtime?
historic sites?

Art by David Coulson.

 Ice-a-licious!
A kid invented this sweet treat.
Now you can make your own.
By Lucy Clark Crawford

I
invented
ice pops
when I
was 11!

Lemonade
Bananas Freeze
’n’ 1. Mix up sweetened
Berries pink lemonade
mix using ¾ as
By Alicia Anderson much water as the
FRANK EPPERSON invented instructions call for
the ice pop at age 11—by (or try part water and
accident! Back in 1905,
1. Put 1 cup of frozen or fresh part lemon-flavored
strawberries (green tops
kids would make punch by club soda).
removed) into a blender.
stirring fruity soda-powder
Add 1 /2 cup of milk and 2 2. Fill each form halfway
into water. One day, Frank
tablespoons of honey. Put with fresh or frozen
mixed a glass of it but then
on the blender lid. Ask an raspberries. Pour the
got called to supper. He
adult to blend until creamy. lemonade mixture
left the drink outside with
the stirring stick still in it. into the forms almost
2. Cut a banana into chunks. to the top.
The night was unusually
Place one on the stick of
cold, and the punch froze.
each ice-pop form.
When Frank used the stick
to pull the frozen drink e
3. Pour the strawber ry mixtur
from the glass, he licked into each form, leaving
the ice like a lollipop. Yum! room for the stick and
Years later, he made and banana. Put the stick into
sold his “fruit-ice-sticks” the form.
on purpose. He named the
treat Ep-sicle—combining
Epperson and icicle.
But his kids called it
Pop’s ’sicle—and he
soon changed the
name to Popsicle.

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Frank Epperson photo by Bettmann/Getty Images.
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 Lydia Darragh’s
SECRET
MISSION
By Rosalie Lauerman i Art by Rick Powell
In the autumn of
1777, during the
Revolutionary War,
the British army seized
Philadelphia and set
up headquarters there.
Lydia Darragh and her family
lived across from British
headquarters. When General
William Howe, the British
commander, needed an
additional meeting room, he took
over a large room at the Darragh
house. Sometimes Lydia would
overhear British soldiers
discussing incoming shipments
or troop movements. They spoke
freely around her because
they knew the Darraghs were
Quakers, members of a religious
group who remained neutral
during the war.
But the British were unaware
that the Darraghs secretly
supported America’s war for
independence. Their oldest son,
Charles, was a lieutenant in
the American army, and Lydia
was a spy for the American
commander in chief, General
George Washington.
A Spy in Action
In order to smuggle
information to Washington,
Lydia would tell her husband
what she overheard. He would
write the message in code.
Lydia would then fit the note
26 JULY 2017
on a buttonmold, sew
fabric over it, and attach
it to her son John’s coat.
Fourteen-year-old John would
eagerly trek to the American
camp about 13 miles away at
White Marsh to visit his brother.
Charles would snip off the
button, decode the message,
and deliver the information
to American headquarters.
On December 2, 1777, a
British officer arrived at Lydia’s
house. He ordered her to prepare
the large room for a top-secret
meeting that evening and
demanded that everyone be in
bed before the meeting started.
When the officers arrived,
Lydia let them in and went to
bed. Her family was already
It would be an act
of high treason,
punishable by death
if she was caught.
Lydia
heard
the
final
order.
asleep. But Lydia
couldn’t sleep. Muff led
sounds from the room pulled
Lydia from her bed.
She tiptoed toward the
meeting room just in time to
hear someone reading a final
order. “The troops should march
out . . . late in the evening of the
4th, attack Washington’s army
and . . . victory was certain.”
Lydia slipped back into
bed. Worried, she wondered
how she would alert the troops
of the planned attack only two
days away.
When an officer knocked on
her bedroom door to say the
meeting had ended, Lydia didn’t
answer. He returned shortly and
again she didn’t answer. On the
third knock, Lydia rose and
pretended to be half asleep. She
stumbled into the hall, shuff led
toward the door, and locked it
after the officers.

A Secret Mission
Lydia was too troubled to
sleep. She had never uncovered
information this important. She
knew she must act quickly to
save the American soldiers,
including Charles.
The next day, she plotted a
secret mission to warn General
Washington. It would be an act
of high treason, punishable by
death if she was caught. So
Lydia decided to act alone,
without telling her family. She
would not risk their lives.
Before dawn on December 4,
Lydia arose, wrapped her gray
wool cape around her, and
headed out. As she neared
Washington’s camp, she spotted
an American officer on
horseback approaching her.
She recognized him as a friend,
Captain Charles Craig.
The captain asked what she
was doing so far from home. In
a soft, hushed voice, Lydia told
him about the British plan.
Captain Craig thanked her and
raced to headquarters.
When the British arrived at
White Marsh, General Howe
found the American troops
armed with cannons. Clearly,
someone had warned them.
In a cold fury, Howe ordered
his troops to return to
Philadelphia.
Lydia spent the next few
days fearing for Charles’s
safety. She didn’t know what
had happened at White Marsh,
and she certainly couldn’t ask.
Once again, a British officer
banged at her door. He
marched in, stone-faced,
ordered her into the meeting
room—and locked the door.
Lydia trembled, fearing that
her secret had been discovered.
She knew that spies were
hanged. She felt faint and
almost fell to the f loor. The
officer told her to sit down.
Sternly, he asked if any of the
others in her family were awake
on the night of the officers’ last
meeting. Lydia replied truthfully
that they were all in bed and
asleep. “I need not ask you,
for we had great difficulty in
waking you to fasten the door
after us.”
Rising from his chair so
forcefully that it toppled over,
he boomed, “One thing is certain;
the enemy had notice of our
coming, were prepared for us,
and we marched back like a
parcel of . . . fools.”
He stormed out, without even
considering that Lydia might
have delivered the warning.
A wave of relief rushed over
Lydia. She thanked God that
Charles was safe and the British
hadn’t suspected her.
She knew she must
act quickly.

Lydia’s Legacy
Lydia’s daughter, Ann, wrote an account of her mother’s
spy activities that was published in 1827. Some people have
questioned the facts in the narrative, but most people tend to
agree that Lydia Darragh was a courageous woman who fought
valiantly for her country’s independence. She is considered to
be one of the founders of American intelligence.
Nature Watch

Desert
Tortoise
By Peter Friederici

DID YOU KNOW?

For tortoises in deserts
of the southwestern
United States, life is a
waiting game. Most of
their time is spent tucked
away in burrows of rock or

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A tortoise tucks itself into its shell when a predator attacks.
Notice how the bent front legs can protect the pulled-in head.
The gular horn, which sticks out on the front of the plastron
(lower shell), is larger on the male tortoise. A tortoise can use it
to fight and to protect itself.

28 JULY 2017 Photos: (top) by Roy C. Averill-Murray, USFWS; (bottom) by Jacob Daly.
Tic-Tac-Shore
What do the beach spots in each row (horizontally, vertically, and diagonally) have in common?

Answers on page 38.

1 2

Jelly Jumble
By Elizabeth Wisz
3 4 5 Ella’s label maker caused a
For jelly jumble! Each label is
examp missing one letter, and the
this jar ,
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other letters are mixed up.
has
BERRY Can you puzzle out what
jelly.
fruit-flavored jelly is in
6 7 each jar?
Answers on page 38.

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 “If you don’t come out,
you’re going to miss
the funderstorm.”
Funderstorm
So my mom mentions to the
Clarksons that I’m
Clarksons I m sort of the
baby-sitter in our building and
that if they ever need me, I’m
responsible and have reasonable
rates (meaning I work cheap).
Three days later, I’m playing
a matching game with Mr. and
Mrs. Clarkson’s five-year-old
son, Billy, while they enjoy
dinner and a movie.
Things get interesting after
f good bedtime stories. This time,
a lightning bolt brightens the
darkening sky like a camera
f lash, followed by a loud crash
of thunder. Billy f lies off the
couch and runs to his room.
The Clarksons gave me
emergency numbers and other
instructions, but they didn’t
tell me what to do if their kid
decides to hide under his bed.
“What’s wrong, Billy?” I ask
as if I don’t already know.
“Nothing,”” he says.
30 JULY 2017
“Then why are you acting
like a dust bunny?”
bunny?
Silence for a moment,
then the truth. “I’m afraid
of thunderstorms,” he says.
Part of being a great baby-
sitter is being an expert in a lot
of fields—a nurse for bandaging
banged-up knees, a chef for
concocting interesting snacks,
and a writer for coming up with
I need to be a psychologist.
“Billy, a lot of people don’t like
thunderstorms,” I say.
“I’m not a lot of people,” he
points out.
I don’t know how to respond
to that. I make a mental note to
brush up on my psychology and
I take a more basic approach.
“You’ll miss my famous cheese-
and-pepper-f lavored popcorn.”
“That’s OK,” Billy says.
I don’t want Billy to have a
By John Samony
Art by Nadia Ronquillo
miserable night. What can I do?
I look around for inspiration
inspiration
and spot Billy’s sports trophies
and ribbons. Then it hits me. “If
you don’t come out, you’re going
to miss the funderstorm.”
“You mean ‘thunderstorm,’”
he corrects.
“Nope. I mean funderstorm.”
Billy peeks his head out.
“What’s that?”
“It’s having fun during a
thunderstorm,” I explain. “When
the lightning strikes, you see
how many things you can do
before the thunder comes.”
“Like a contest?”
“Yep.”
At that moment, lightning
lights up the room. Billy looks
at me expectantl
I spot a lone sock dangling
from his dresser drawer. “How
many socks can you put on
one foot? Go!”

He runs too his dresser
and starts pu utting on socks
socks.
His right foott grows bigger
with each new one.
I count aloong. “3 . . . 4 . . .
5 . . .” He gets to 8 before
the thunder booms and
rattles the windows.
“I think the storm is
going away,” he says.
It also ratttles his nerves.
Before he can n dive back under
the bed, I yelll, “Fruits! How
many can you u name?”
The sky lig ghts up.
“Apple, ban nana, pear . . . ,”
he chants. Hee’s in the middle of
listing melonns when the round
ends with a sharp crack.
“Pretty im
mpressive,” I say.
“What else?” he says.
I smile. Noow he’s really
on
n board. “Let’s see your hopping
sk
kills.” I peek out the window.
“R
Ready, set . . .” At the f lash,
Iyyell, “Go!”
He starts hopping on one foot.
Affter 10 seconds, he switches to
the other foot, then back again
at 20 seconds. He’s at 29 hops
whhen a softer boom signals the
en
nd of the round.
“That’s the best I’ve ever
doone,” he says.
“You getting hungry?” I ask,
grinning like a cheetah. “At the
neext lightning bolt, go to the
kittchen, grab the popcorn, and
comme back.”
I can still see a little worry
in his eyes. “You OK?” I ask.
“Yes,” he says confidently,
su
urprising me with the speed
of his answer.
I yell “Go!” exactly when
the f lash comes.
He peels out of his room.
Sixteen seconds later, he leaps
Six
back in, drops the container of
popcorn on his dresser, and falls
“Ready,
set . . .
go!”
breathlessly onto the f loor.
“Sixteen seconds,” I say,
looking at my watch and
smiling. “Not bad.”
We don’t hear anything
for a minute or two.
“I think the storm is going
away,” he says.
So is the worried look in
his eyes.
When the Clarksons return,
they apologize for not calling
home. They were in the theater
and didn’t hear the storm.
“How’d our boy weather the
thunderstorm?” Mrs. Clarkson
asks as she gives Billy a hug.
“Funderstorm,” he corrects,
giving me a sly look. “And I can’t
wait till the next one!”
Billy isn’t kidding.
I can’t take other baby-sitting
jobs if storm clouds start rolling
in because I’ll know to expect a
call from the Clarksons.
Billy has a lot of records
to break.
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middle finger.

3. Curl your right

index and
middle fingers
around to
cover the gap
between your
two bent
“Levitate” a Styrofoam Cup fingers.

4. Slowly lift
the cup 4. With your left
and act palm facing
1. Use your thumb 2. Clasp the cup 3. Tell your friends you as if your you, pull your
to punch a hole in with both can make the cup mysterious right hand
a Styrofoam cup. hands, with one levitate, and open powers are away from
(Make sure the cup thumb stuck both hands with your making it your left to
is empty, of course.) in the hole. thumb still in the hole. float. “remove” the
top of your
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surface.

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straw into straw and pinch the as you unpinch your fingers whistle that changes
a tall glass bottom to hold the slightly, releasing the water pitch as the water
of water. water in place. slowly back into the cup. is released.

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 Lighting the Nig ht
Trained pros set off 50,00
0
fireworks in one show!
On April 30, 2010, one
of the biggest fireworks
displays in history took
place in Shanghai, China.
The event opened that year’s
World Expo, where 192
countries showed their most
exciting new developments.
For 30 minutes, a steady
barrage of 50,000 fireworks
lit the night sky above a
two-mile stretch of the
Huangpu River. They
boomed, whistled, and
crackled in time with
blaring music, dancing
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searchlights, and spouting
water fountains. “The
display on the bridge alone
was as big as the Macy’s
show in the United States,”
says James Deye, who
coordinated the fireworks
control systems.
A section of the city
was evacuated to protect
onlookers. For the fireworks
pros, one of the most
Photo by Philippe Lopez/Getty Images. Art (page 36) by Robert L. Prince.
By Andy Boyles
Contributing Science Editor
dangerous jobs was
collecting the duds after
the show. Hot embers can
still slowly burn inside a
firework shell that didn’t go
off, so it can explode without
warning for some time after
the fuse has burned away.
After waiting a safe period of

Sky
time, the experts carefully
sealed and packed the duds
into a hazardous-materials
truck for removal.
(Continued on next page)
Only trained professionals
should prepare
fireworks mixtures!
Night-Sky Colors
The colors of fireworks are made by burning
compounds that contain different elements.
Some common elements used (and their colors)
include strontium (red), calcium (reddish
orange), sodium (yellow), barium (green), and
copper (blue). Some can be mixed to make
other colors. For example, strontium and
copper together glow purple.
For these elements to give off light, they
have to reach temperatures of 1,500 to more
than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit—more than
three times hotter than a campfire! The fuels
that heat them need a lot of oxygen to burn,
so fireworks contain an “oxidizer,” a compound
that releases a lot of oxygen when it’s heated.
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mortar and a shell that explodes
INSIDE
The stars
to make a ball shape.
are arranged
inside to
make a face or
other pattern.

Mortar SOUND EFFECTS

2. Powder
BANG burns inside,
1. Lift making a lot of
charge gases—fast.
launches
the shell.

3. Thick shell
Fuse holds in the gases
and finally bursts
with a bang!
Shell
Bursting
Charge WHISTLE
Stars
1. As this
special
mixture
burns, it 3. Sound
releases 2. Sound waves that match comes
spurts of the length of the short out the
gases, making tube bounce back and open
sound waves. forth, adding up to make end.
a high-pitched sound.

CRACKLE 2. Each grain contains

1. Lift two metal compounds.
charge One is the fuel. The
launches other is the oxidizer.
the shell.
Time Lift
Fuse 3. One after another,
Charge
the grains burn super
hot: crack-crack-crack!

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The tree house needed work. The
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Home sweet tree house!

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Snowstorms, 1 when it was cold?
sandstorms, and Riley Neff, South Dakota
cyclones, too.
Vaishnavi R.
Age 8 ™ New York
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When are kids mos 2
to go into sc ho ol?
Haylie, Oregon
page 29
Tic-Tac-Shore What is so brittle that to
Answers beach ball
sunglasses beach ball
beach ball
snorkel gear
3 name it is to break it?
Tino Tinker, Iowa
green-and- surf board shovel
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in it will make the higher-pitched sound. Briar, Texas
When you tap an empty glass, the glass Picture Puzzler
vibrates, and the number of vibrations We found these words with
per second gives the pitch. More double o’s. You may have found
Which kind of bagel can fly?
vibrations per second give a higher
sound. When there is water in the
others: baboon, school, moose,
broom, poodle, bamboo, roof,
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glass, the vibrating glass must vibrate door, roots, boots, Hula-Hoop,
the water, too. It’s harder to vibrate a book, cookies, goose, kangaroo,
heavy object than a light one, so the
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scoop, stools, pool, noodles, ter say
when it’s hungry?
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cooler, blooms, bassoon.
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1. before ten
2. two cups equal this
3. man who sits on a throne
4. color of a flamingo
5. moving air
6. a place to wash your hands
7. finger jewelry
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Pu n n y
Pups “He’s bilingual.”
“I’d hate to see the fleas
big enough to wear those.”
“I ate my
homework.”

JULY 2017 39
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Dear Not Laughing,
I absolutely love my little
brother and sister, Tex and Indi,
but sometimes I feel frustrated
when they don’t respect my stuff.
“Ooh! Where’d you get that
cool necklace?” I overheard
Indi’s friend Kate ask.
“I just found it,” said Indi.
“I love the daisy in the middle
of the heart!” said Kate.
“Yeah,” said Indi. “It’s my new
favorite thing in the world!”
“Excuse me,” I said. “Where
did you find that necklace?”
“Right there on the f loor,”
40 JULY 2017
Indi said, pointing to a spot just
outside my bedroom.
I put my hands on my hips.
“So you found a necklace right
outside my bedroom and didn’t
think it might be mine?”
Indi shrugged.
“Well, your favorite new
thing happens to be my favorite
old thing, and I’d like it back.
Please, please, please just leave
my stuff alone once and for
all!” I said.
I must have sounded pretty
angry because Indi’s eyes filled
with tears.
“Here you go,” she sniff led.
“Where did you
find that necklace?”
I asked.
“I’m sorry for taking it.”
And that was that. Indi and
Kate went off to the backyard,
and I decided to try to change
my sour mood by taking out
the arts-and-crafts box. I found
craft sticks and seashells for
a picture frame, put on some
music, and got to work.
As I carefully glued on the
shells, I remembered how
Indi and I had found them
together at the beach. That’s
when I decided to make the
frame for Indi to apologize
for overreacting.
By the time I was finished,
I was starving.
“I’m going to make myself
a snack!” I told my kitty cats,
Charlie and Cow. “You guys
stand guard to make sure
nobody touches this until the
glue dries, OK?”
Charlie and Cow f licked their
ears, which I thought meant
“Aye, aye, captain! We are your
loyal guards.” But it actually
turned out to mean “Sorry!
 “We’d like you to
come out for a
family meeting.”
We are just f luffy little purr-
monsters who can’t be trusted
to guard anything whatsoever.”
The reason I know this is
because, when I returned, Tex
was busily building a craft-stick
extravaganza and had managed
to ruin my frame in the process.
“No!” I exclaimed. “You
wrecked my project. It took me
forever to make that. Did you
not even see it there?”
“See what where?” Tex
mumbled, holding a fistful of
craft sticks in one hand and
glue in the other.
“Why doesn’t anyone respect
my things?” I cried.
“No! You wrecked
my project.”
I went to my room, shut my
door, and made a gigantic sign
that said Keep Out.
I guess I caused enough
commotion to worry everybody.
Before long, I heard a knock on
my door.
“We’d like you to come out for
a family meeting,” said my mom.
Tex and Indi had told my
parents what had happened.
So after Kate had gone home,
we all sat in the living room
to talk things over.
First, I apologized.
Then I explained
my feelings.
First, I apologized for lashing
out. Then I explained that even
though I knew nobody was trying
to steal or wreck my things, I
needed to feel that my possessions
were being respected.
Tex and Indi agreed to try
harder to be considerate of my
stuff. And I agreed to be gentler
and more understanding when
they accidentally took or ruined
something that belonged to me.
Of course, Cow and Charlie
were at the family meeting, too.
They f licked their ears to say
they’d be happy to stand guard
for me anytime, but I said that
all I really needed them to do
was snuggle in my lap and purr.
So, dear Not Laughing, I
think you should calmly ask your
mom or dad to help you make
a safe, off-limits spot for your
most special stuff. And you could
calmly let your brother know that
you don’t like having your things
taken and wrecked. I agree it’s
good to have a sense of humor
about a lot of difficult stuff. But
respecting other people’s property
isn’t always a laughing matter.
Ciao for now,
Arizona
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By Barbara D. Krasner

The Statue of Liberty was shipped

from France to America in crates,
complete with instructions on how
to put it together.

F rom the shores of Rouen,

France, sculptor Frédéric
Auguste Bartholdi watched the
Isère steam toward the Atlantic 1876: The Statue of
Ocean. His 214 wooden crates Liberty’s right arm and
were on board. “Goodbye, my torch on display at
the Philadelphia
daughter, Liberty,” he said.
Exposition.
“At last you are going home.”
The waiting was over.
The idea for a statue as a gift
of freedom and friendship from
France to the United States had
excited Bartholdi for 20 years.
But it had frustrated him, too.

Designing the Statue

Things went fine at first.
Bartholdi scouted America for
the perfect location. He spotted
a small island in New York
Harbor. “In this very place shall
be raised the Statue of Liberty,
as grand as the idea which it
embodies, casting radiance upon
the two worlds,” he wrote.
Then he got down to work.
He designed the statue to look
like his mother. He selected Running into Problems birthday—the year of liberty—at
iron and steel for the frame But soon a lack of money delayed the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition.
and copper for the statue itself. his progress. He had wanted to But all he had to show was the
He worked with the best complete his statue in time to statue’s right arm and torch. Later,
engineers in the world to help America celebrate its 100th these stood in front of New York
make her tall and proud.
Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress, except statue (page 45, center) by iStock/kaarsten.
City’s Madison Square Park.
The world kept waiting for
Miss Liberty. There still wasn’t
enough money to build her or
her pedestal.
France promised to pay for
the statue. By 1880, France had
collected the money from more
than 100 towns and cities and
100,000 people.
America promised to pay for
the pedestal. It was a huge job.
Some might even have said it
was colossal.
Famous American artists,
writers, and actors donated
their works to an auction in
1883. More than 1,000 people
received invitations to the
auction and an exhibition.
On the opening night, the
head of the Pedestal Fund said,
“Here is everything charming, . . .
elegant, . . . beautiful, and . . .
splendid. It is such an exhibition
as our country never saw before.”
But the exhibition and its
auction failed to raise enough
money for the pedestal.
The Statue
Comes Together
Hungarian immigrant Joseph
Pulitzer, owner of New York
World newspaper, came up with
an idea. He printed daily pleas
for money. He wrote, “The
statue, the noble gift of our
young sister republic is ready
for us . . . and we stand haggling
and begging and scheming in
order to raise enough money.”
Pulitzer’s plan worked.
Money poured in from all over
America—from rich and poor
and children, too. Jane M. gave
50 cents and wrote, “I am only
a sewing girl, but I am in full
sympathy with your effort.”
Another child scribbled, “I am a
wee bit of a girl, yet I am ever so
glad that I was born in a time to
contribute. . . . When I am old Now it was time to build.
enough, I will ask my Mama and Once in New York,
Papa to take me to see the statue, Bartholdi’s crates traveled
and I will always be proud that by barge to Bedloe’s Island.
I began my career by sending There, small railway cars carried
you one dollar to aid in so good them on makeshift tracks to the
a cause.” The World printed foot of the pedestal.
the name of each person who It took workers several months
contributed, down to the last penny. to put Miss Liberty together, using
Finally, Miss Liberty could a system of numbers, letters, and
have her pedestal. symbols that had been marked on
each piece back in France.
At last, two sets of steel
LIBERTY FACTS beams locked into the Statue
of Liberty’s steel skeleton as it
Torch (replaced in
rose to its full height of 151 feet
1986) made of copper
and covered in on top of its 89-foot pedestal and
24-karat gold leaf. 65-foot foundation. Nothing
could shake the statue loose.
And on October 28, 1886,
7 rays in the crown (for hundreds of thousands of people
7 continents, 7 seas). huddled under their umbrellas
25 in the rain and wind for the
windows in statue’s dedication. And there
the crown. was President Grover Cleveland
accepting this gift from France—
Liberty Enlightening the World—
The date July on behalf of the United States.
IV, MDCCLXXVI She was well worth the wait.
(July 4, 1776),
is written on
the tablet.
1885:
Bartholdi
and his
statue
make
headlines
3 5 in
feet America.
from
ground
to tip
of
torch. 1886: The
invitation
to the
statue’s
dedication
on Bedloe’s
Island,
New York.
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Put the chunks into a bowl.
2. Wash some fresh raspberries and
blueberries. Pat them dry.
3. Peel and slice a kiwi.
4. Peel an orange and a grapefruit.
Cut them into bite-sized chunks.
5. Carefully poke wooden skewers
through the fruit.
6. To eat the kebabs, remove the fruit
with your fingers.
7. Enjoy!

I sit on a log
after taking a hike
The to write down this list
of some things I don’t like:
Grumpy My bug bites are itchy
My boots are too tight

Hiker This log is too lumpy

The sun is too bright
That path was too hilly
—Diana Murray
I’m getting a cramp
My socks won’t stay up and
My sandwich is damp
The birds are too noisy
I just spilled my drink
This list would go on but
my pen’s out

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KIDS ON THE
JOB
Kids told us about jobs they’ve done,
either for free or as a way to earn money.
We were impressed by their hard work!
When I was 11, our riding
mower broke down. The grass
was getting pretty tall in the
time it took to fix the mower, so
I push-mowed the entire lawn. It
took about 20 hours in all because
I mowed three acres, and the
bottom of the hill that we live on
has thick, swampy grass. Since
it was a hard task, I believe it
taught me to always stick to a job,
even when it gets really tough.
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mom. She thought her car
was dirty, so I helped clean it.
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to the movies! I learned that
hard work pays off.
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mother, “Mom, I want to give to
the poor.” So we found a local
charity that helps kids. We
talked to them about doing a
drive and they said OK. I held an
event to collect all sorts of items
and cash. We even collected a
bathtub! It felt good to know that
children were being helped. I
learned that it’s good to think
about others sometimes and not
just yourself.
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windows. I did it for free. It was
actually a lot of fun because my
brothers and sister helped me.
My mom was proud of me when
I was done.
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also help by mopping the
kitchen f loor and doing
our recycling.
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A great job that I enjoy is baby-
sitting. I got my job by enrolling in a
Red Cross baby-sitting and first-aid
class, and a local nurse certified me
in CPR. Also, since I baby-sit
my three younger siblings (ages
seven, two, and seven months),
I was trusted. It also helps to
baby-sit for people you know well.
Later, I hung up f lyers in my
neighborhood. This experience
taught me about leadership and
responsibility. Baby-sitting is not
only a great source of income, but
it’s a way to help out parents, too.
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Over the summer, I earned
money selling vegetables. I got
the job when my grandfather
offered my sister and me the
job of picking things from his
garden and selling them. After
getting a permit to sell, I was
able to begin. I did it all
summer and made friendships
and learned to sell effectively.
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do it because the teacher thought
I was responsible and she needed
help. She offered to pay me $5!
I learned how to do better art and,
more importantly, that lending a
helping hand is a nice thing to do!
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Sh You dribble
the ball down
the field. The
crowd holds its
breath. It’s a long shot.
You give the ball a strong
kick and it flies right into the back
of the net. GOAL! The crowd roars.
Every soccer player dreams of scoring
a goal. But it takes more than hopes and
dreams. It takes skill and technique.
Here’s how to shoot with power and
score a goal.

1. Plant
Place your
nonkicking
foot next
to the ball.
This is your
plant foot.
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To keep your balance, stretch
the arm that is on the same side
as your plant foot straight out
in front of you.

3. Lock
Lock the ankle of
your kicking foot
and point your
toe down.

4. Lean
Lean with your chest.
The knee of your
kicking leg should
be over the ball.

5. Kick
Strike the ball using
your laces. Land
on your kicking foot.

So . . . Plant, Balance,
and Kick!

Pound that ball into the net. Practice

this over and over so that when you
are in the game, you will know exactly
how to move.
And that’s how you shoot with power!
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