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4 IDEAS FOR A
Marvelous
Movie Night
1 . Pile pillows and blankets
on the living-room floor
for cozy seating.
2. With your parents’
permission, string up
Answers on page 38.
holiday lights for dim,
twinkly lighting.
3. Try a new popcorn topping
such as cinnamon sugar,
garlic salt, taco seasoning,
or hot sauce.
4. Choose three movies
you’d like to watch. Have
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is Nation members vote for one
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Craft
Month! night, let someone else
Create a self-portrait using paper and
choose the three movies
washable paints—but no paintbrush. Instead,
to vote on.
use your fingers and cotton swabs, cotton balls,
plastic forks, sponges, cardboard tubes, or other materials

Find the
you can find around your house. Be sure to
ask a parent for permission before choosing your tools.

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March
VOLUME 73 • NUMBER 3 • ISSUE NO. 797

Dear Highlights,
Chin
Up!
March is
Optimism
—Jonah, California Month.

1 He looks up to you! 2 Make up a game that’s 3 Your little brother

Think of how happy you’d fun for both of you. Maybe will grow up fast. Soon
make him if you walked he can count seconds as he’ll be running fast, just
with him sometimes. you race. like you!

8 22

20
6 Beneath the 10 Goofus and
Winter Snow Gallant®
What’s growing? Someone is very impatient.

7 The Timbertoes® 11 Gallant Challenge!

Write your own
Hat on the loose!
“musical hug.”
8 18 Crafts
A Birthday Present 12 My Sci Springtime butterflies,
for Brandon How do ants communicate? tetherball, and more.
Will he get a pet?
14 Hidden Pictures® 20 Saving a Tiger
Puzzle Named Cinderella
Rocking out with dinos. A real-life fairy tale.

15 Jokes 22 Monster Gets Real

Cutest monster family ever!
16 The Cat’s Bell
A mouse in the Great Green
House has a heroic plan.
Lucy’s unusual friend loves
to draw.
24 Wacky Weather
Help Addie Temp with
this week’s forecast.

4 MARCH 2018
 Back to
the Wild
Scientists
helped
an orphan
ed tiger
cub, who is
now
grown and
thriving.

25 Paws and Think 31 What’s Your Scoop?

Tapping trees for sap.
26 Your Ideas, Please!
Great advice from kids.
28 From Two Different
Universes
Luca and Jess have to figure
out how to work together.
30 Bot Spot
A soccer robot that keeps
on playing.
Dream up an ice-cream flavor,
then tell us about it!
32 The Brazilian Blur
Life wasn’t always easy for
Leandro Barbosa. Fernando Correa-Corchado
Age 12 • Texas
34 Your Own Pages
Drawings and poems from
creative kids like Fernando.
40 Ask Arizona®
Sometimes even best
36 Friendship, Spelled friends need space.
D-O-G 42 Dear Highlights
Helen Keller adored her Ray wants a better attitude.
furry friends.

38 Riddles
43 Picture Puzzler
Ticktock rows.
What did the Olympic runner
say to the chef?

39 BrainPlay
Name a carpenter’s tool.
 Beneath the
Winter Snow
By Lorna Volk • Art by Erwin Madrid

Beneath the last of winter snow

They wait . . .
All tender things that grow.
Winding roots and springing grass
Wait for winter days to pass.
Underneath the snow, unseen,
Vines are hiding,
Sprouts are green.
The clouds are lined
With silver light,
The skies are cool and gray,
The winter winds blow softly now,
For spring is on its way.

6 MARCH 2018
The March wind blew. The
Timbertoes
®

By Rich Wallace • Art by Ron Zalme

My ears
are cold!

Tommy grabbed Pa’s hat. It blew away. They chased it downhill.

And uphill. Mabel ran to get help.

Bring
that back!

Rescued!

MARCH 2018 7

A Birthday Present
for Brandon
B randon went to the pet store with his
mom and his brothers, Isaiah and Matt.
Isaiah needed food for his bunny. Matt
wanted a toy for his bird.
Brandon looked at a red-and-blue-
striped fish while he waited. Air
bubbled to the top of the fish tank.
Brandon leaned close to the glass.
Could he hear the bubbles pop?
“May I have a pet?” Brandon asked.
“You can’t take care of a pet,” Isaiah
said. “You’re too little.”
“I’m almost seven,” said Brandon.
“I can take care of a pet.”
“You won’t be gentle with a pet,”
said Matt. “You’re too little.”
Mom smiled. “It’s hard to keep a
pet’s cage neat.”
Brandon stood tall. “I can be neat.”
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“You can’t take
care of a pet.
You’re too little.”
When they got home,
Brandon went to the
room he shared with
Matt. Brandon’s blocks
dotted the f loor. Toy cars
covered the top of his
desk. Books were
By Joanne Brown
Art by Nina Mata
f lopped open on his bed.
Brandon’s pajamas
hung from the back of
his chair. “My side of the room is not
neat,” Brandon said.
He dropped his blocks into a bin. He
parked the cars on his shelf. He stacked
the books, leaving One Fish, Two Fish,
Red Fish, Blue Fish on the top.
Brandon put his pajamas away.
He smiled. He could be neat.
“May I have a pet?”
Brandon asked.
The doorbell rang. Brandon heard
Uncle Jay say hello to Mom. He heard
his baby cousin, Rubie, crying. “Hi,
Uncle Jay,” Brandon said. “Why is
Rubie crying?”
“She’s hungry, Brandon,” Uncle Jay
said. “Can you get her baby bottle?”
 Brandon found the bottle in Rubie’s “Thank you for
diaper bag. Uncle Jay put Rubie on a helping take
blanket. Brandon sat in front of her. He care of Rubie.”
hid his face with his hands. “Peekaboo,”
Brandon said, lowering his hands.
Rubie stopped crying.
“You’re very gentle,” said Uncle Jay.
“Do you want to feed Rubie?”
Brandon nodded.
Rubie helped Brandon hold the bottle
with her little fingers. She looked at
him as she drank. Tiny white bubbles
f loated in Rubie’s bottle, then popped.
“Thank you for helping take care of
Rubie,” Uncle Jay said to Brandon.
“You’re really growing up.”
Mom looked at Brandon feeding “Wow, thanks,” Brandon said.
Rubie. “Yes, he is,” she said and kissed “I know just what I want.”
the top of Brandon’s head. “A bunny?” Isaiah asked.
That night, Mom and Dad told “No,” Brandon said.
Brandon he could have a pet for “A bird?” Matt asked.
his birthday. “Nope,” Brandon said.
“What, then?” Dad asked.
“A fish,” Brandon said. “And a tank
full of bubbles.”

“I know just
what I want.”
Goaondfus There’s some of Goofus and Gallant in us all.
When the Gallant shines through, we show our best self.

Gallant
®

“To get back to where

you were, tap that
arrow,” says Gallant.

“No—the button, not

the link! Oh, just let me
do it,” says Goofus.

If Gallant doesn’t
want something, he
just sets it aside.

“Here, you take these.

I don’t like them,”
says Goofus.

YOUR Goofus and Gallant Moments

“I felt like Goofus when
I was fooling around and
accidentally hit my friend in
the eye with my planner.”
Emma, Age 8, Maryland
“I felt like Gallant when
I walked my friend to the
nurse at school.”
Leo, Age 7, New Jersey

10 MARCH 2018 Art by Leslie Harrington.

 NT
G A L L A N G E! Write a song for
E
CHALL someone special.

Musical
Hugs
E veryone knows that music
can make you feel good. Imagine
how great you’d feel hearing a
song that’s all about you and
your favorite people and things!
Songs of Love creates original
songs for kids facing tough
challenges. John Beltzer started
the foundation as a way to give
joy and comfort to kids who are
sick. After hearing “thank you”
from the first song recipient,
a five-year-old girl named
Brittany who was battling
cancer, Beltzer wanted to
reach more kids.
Over the past 22 years,
Songs of Love has created
original songs for more than
27,000 children. Each song
is written for just one child Share Your
and includes all of his or her
“favorites.” The song is also
Song!
written in that child’s choice Did you write a song for
of music style, such as pop, For example, the words someone? Did it make that
country, or rap. “The farmer in the dell, person happy? Tell us about
the farmer in the dell, it, or share a few lines of the
Show Your Love hi-ho the derry-o, song. Please include your
with a Song the farmer in the dell” name, age, and address.
Do you know someone who can be changed to Mail to
is going through a tough time? “Grandpa lives out west,
Write a song for him or her! he loves his yellow vest,
Musical Hugs
An easy way to start is by we think he’s the greatest, 803 Church Street
changing the words of a tune Grandpa is the best.” Honesdale, PA 18431
you know. Write down the real After you finish your song,
lyrics, then change them to surprise the person by singing it In a future issue, we’ll
be about the person for whom to him or her, or record and send publish a few responses.
you’re writing the song. it. It’s like a musical hug!

Photo by iStock/Paul Bradbury. MARCH 2018 11

 The canopy is usually As the skydiver falls, air is forced
strong, lightweight into the front of tube-like cells in
nylon fabric. the canopy, keeping it inflated.

Parachute
comes from
French words
meaning
“protection
from a fall.”

Parachute
Push By Sara Matson

A skydiver jumps from

a plane. As gravity pulls
downward, a force called
drag pushes upward. Drag The canopy is
is air resistance—the “push Suspension shaped like a
back” of air molecules lines attach wing—wider in
resisting being moved aside
the skydiver’s front and
by the skydiver’s body.
But there isn’t enough harness to tapered in
air resistance to slow the the canopy. back. That
skydiver very much. makes it glide
as it descends.
Then—whoosh!—the skydiver opens a
parachute. Its big surface area pushes against
a greater volume of air, causing much more
drag. Within seconds, the skydiver slows from Control lines
a speed of about 120 miles per hour to just
connected to the
15 to 20 miles per hour and can safely land.
back corners let
the skydiver steer
left and right.

Bag Drag
Try this! Use a paper clip to connect the handles of a
plastic bag. (For safety, always keep plastic bags away
from young children.) Wad up the bag, toss it in the air,
and watch it fall. Then unwad it, shake it open (leaving
the paper clip in place), and toss it up again. Notice that
it drifts down more slowly because the broad surface
pushing through air causes more drag.
 Big
Small brain
nose

Moabosaurus
moe-AB-oh-SAW-rus
By Dougal Dixon
Art by Robert Squier

“lizard from Moab” (city near

where the fossils were found) Broad teeth that
The skeleton of Moabosaurus was could rip leaves
re-created from about 5,000 damaged from trees
fossil bones found in one region over a
period of 30 years. The bones are from
18 or more juveniles. Scientists think that
they may have died during a drought and
that the bones were eaten by bugs and
trampled before being fossilized.

Air-filled
bones on back
and neck,
WHERE: common
among
Utah
sauropods

HOW LONG: WHAT IT ATE:

32 feet Plants WHEN:
125 million years ago
252 201 145 66 Present
Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic

How do ants communicate? glands in its body to communicate the

colony it belongs to, its role in the colony,
Kaitlyn (by e-mail) the location of food sources, and more.
Hi! Most of their
Another ant can detect these scents, and
scents in the air, with its antennae.
communication is Ants don’t have good vision, so very
through pheromones little communication is through sight.
(FEHR-uh-moanz), They don’t have ears, but they are very
which are chemical sensitive to vibrations through receptors
scents. An ant in their legs. And they can make “warning”
“lays down” chirps by rubbing together body parts as
scents from grasshoppers do.

MARCH 2018 13
 Want ae?
challeng 15
k page
Fold bac the
to h id e
tu re clues.
pic
Dinos of Rock
By Luke Flowers

In this big picture, find the basketball, sneaker, wheel, fish, key, pencil, spoon, hammer,
crescent moon, banana, book, doughnut, carrot, and toothbrush.

14 MARCH 2018 Check out our Hidden Pictures app!

 JOKES
Picture Clues

sneaker
“Knock, knock.”
basketball
“Who’s there?”

pencil
“Butter.”
“Butter who?”
Jack: What do you call a monster
“Butter not keep with a lot of children?

the door open.

wheel fish Mike: I don’t know. What?
Jack: A momster!
It’s cold outside.” Dylan, Virginia
Adam Godfrey, Pennsylvania A book never written: The Bugs
key Server: How was your food? I’ve Met by Kate R. Piller.
Bear: Grrr-eat! Ellen Ladwig, Idaho
spoon Sophie Kristin, Washington

Two fish friends hadn’t seen Make us laugh!

each other for a while. One day,
hammer they ran into each other.
The first fish said to the
crescent second, “Long time no sea!”
Parker Weaver, Florida
moon
Send a joke or riddle, along with your
name, age, and address, to
803 Church Street
Honesdale, PA 18431

book
Daydreams
banana The dreams I dream when I’m asleep
Come softly in the night.
doughnut They tiptoe in and tell their tales
Then quickly take to f light.

But dreams I have by light of day

Are special and apart.
carrot My daydreams are my secret hopes,
toothbrush The wish list of my heart.

—Pearl Hoffman

BONUS
Can you also find
the envelope,
ice-cream cone,
slice of pizza,
and mug?

Answers on HighlightsKids.com.

The
Cat’s
Bell
Based on a fable by
Aesop
By Cressida Blake Roe
Art by Risa Horiuchi
In a hole in the Great Green
House lived a royal mouse
family known as the Top-Right-
Cabinet branch of the House of
Cheddar, or the TRCHOC.
(When any mice tried to
pronounce the abbreviation, they
were kindly asked to “repeat
that, and don’t cough this time!”)
Colby was the youngest of
the TRCHOC family. He was
very smart and liked to build
things out of the odds and ends
that found their way into the
Top-Right Cabinet. His favorite
was a little round bell he’d
fashioned out of an apple seed
and a piece of scrap metal. He
carried it everywhere he went.
He loved tugging the bell on its
thin thread and hearing it ring
as it bumped along beside him.
Then, one day, the cat came.
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must be done!”
The humans who owned
the Great Green House cared
nothing about mice royalty or
the TRCHOC. A mouse was just
a mouse as long as it made
unwanted raids on the fruit
bowl. Because the mice had
become clever at avoiding traps,
the owners brought home a
ginger-tabby tomcat with
moonlike eyes that seemed to
swallow up its face.
The mouse families from all
over the Great Green House
were thrown into an uproar.
They called a meeting at Nook-
Inside-Fireplace to figure out
how to solve the calamity.
“This is an outrage!” yelled
the delegate from Spare
Bedroom.
“To be policed by that
skulking creature is below
“Something
the dignity of mice!” cried the
ambassador from the far town
of Above-Attic-Beam.
“Something must be done!”
said the representative of
Behind-Water-Pipe.
As at every such meeting,
all heads turned toward the
figure the mice looked up to
most: Lord Stilton, who spoke
for the TRCHOC.
One day,
the cat came.
But before Lord Stilton could
say anything, there was an
anxious squeak, and Colby stood
up. Between his paws was his
homemade metal bell, which
ref lected a dozen eager faces.
“I have an idea!” he exclaimed.

“Yes?” Lord Stilton said.
Colby twitched his tail
nervously at the sudden
attention. “My plan,” he said,
“is to put my bell on the neck
of the cat. That way, we’ll always
know when it is coming.” He
shook the bell to illustrate.
“How can we accomplish
this dangerous feat?” asked the
spokesman from the realm of
Niche-Above-Furnace. He spoke
too loudly, as he was accustomed
to raising his voice above the
racket in his home.
At that moment, there was
a terrible scratching noise. The
nimble cat was trying to dig its
way into Nook-Inside-Fireplace!
With high-pitched squeals and
the frantic scamper of scurrying
feet, the mice f led.
Colby was paralyzed by
fright. In less than two seconds,
he was all alone in the nook, the
bell still clutched between his
paws. He could see one huge
lantern eye of the cat outside,
and he heard it give a hiss of
triumph as it squeezed its
rotund head through the hole.
But in its zeal to get Colby,
the cat had unthinkingly left
its paws on the other side
of the hole. Colby, his senses
heightened by fear, noticed the
cat’s mistake, and it filled him
with a rush of courage. Pulling
his scattered wits back together,
he launched himself at the great
ginger tabby.
The feline was taken aback.
Mice weren’t supposed to
come f lying at cats like this!
Awkwardly, the cat tried to
escape, but Colby was faster.
Leaping on top of the cat’s head,
far back enough to evade the
feline’s lethal jaws, Colby threw
the bell’s thread around the cat’s
collar and tied the ends together
Colby launched himself at
the great ginger tabby.
Colby heard the high,
joyous peal of the
little round bell.
as tightly as he could.
Then he jumped and ran
for his life back to Top-Right-
Cabinet. He could hear the
click-click of claws on the f loor
behind him as the cat readied to
spring, and for a moment Colby
knew he was done for.
And then he heard it: the
high, joyous peal of the little
round bell.
The cat gave a yowl of
annoyance at the disturbance
under its chin and stopped to
scratch at it, just long enough
for Colby to make it to safety.
Colby collapsed in the middle
of his cheering family of mice,
who hoisted their triumphant
hero on their shoulders. Now
every mouse, TRCHOC or
otherwise, would be safe
from the cat.
MARCH 2018 17
Crafts
Tabletop
Tetherball Make This
Next Month!
A Game for 2 Players
By Anjela Curtis

1. Cut two circles from corrugated

cardboard. Cover one with scrapbook
paper. Poke a hole in the center of it.
2. Cut two slits at one end of a jumbo
straw. Cut a piece of yarn twice as long
as the straw. Cut a chenille stick just
longer than the straw. Thread the yarn
and chenille stick through the straw.
3. Dab glue into the hole in the circle.
Push the split end of the straw
through the hole. Tape the ends of the
straw, chenille stick, and yarn to the
underside of the circle. Glue the second
cardboard circle onto the bottom of the
first circle, covering the tape.
4. Cut a slit in the top of the straw. Slide
the yarn through it. Tape a small
Styrofoam ball to the end of the yarn.

TO PLAY: By f licking
the ball, players try
to wrap the yarn
around the straw.
Players receive one
point when the ball
touches the pole.
The player who scores
five points first wins.

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Craft samples by Buff McAllister. Photos by Guy Cali Associates, Inc., except
pages 18–19 (background) by iStock/Kwanchal_Khammuean; page 19 (red-and-white sock)
iStock/Antagain, (blue-striped sock) iStock/Issaurinko, (dog biscuits) iStock/Sarahdoow.
 Spring 1. For the base, glue

Note
green cardstock
onto corrugated
cardboard.
Center 2. For the trunk, paint
the inside of a short
By Kathy Ross King cardboard tube.
Twist chenille
sticks to make
tree branches.
Glue on felt leaves.
Glue the branches on
the trunk. Cover the
trunk with felt. Glue
the tree to the base.
3. For the bird, cover a
Styrofoam egg with

Colorful felt. Add felt feathers, a

beak, and wiggle eyes.

Butterflies
Glue felt feet to the
base. Glue the bird
on top of the feet.
By Jennifer K. Day 4. Tape or glue a notepad
to the base.
1. From watercolor
paper, cut out two
oval shapes.
2. Using watercolors
or acrylic paints and
water, decorate the CRAFT CHALLENGE! Make clothes for
ovals. Let them dry. a doll or stuffed animal out of old socks.
3. Accordion-fold the
ovals. Pinch them
together in the middle.
Wrap a chenille stick
around the center
and twist it to form
Dog-Treat
antennae and a body.
4. Add a ribbon hanger.
Canister
By Carol Davis
Top oval
1. Paint a metal canister.
(Use several coats, if
necessary.) Let it dry.
2. Decorate the canister
and lid with duct tape,
felt bones, and painted
paw prints.
Bottom oval
MARCH 2018 19
 Saving a Tiger Named
Cinderella By Emily Johnsen

A starving orphaned
cub grew up to roam
free. Now she’s a mom!
O n an icy day in February 2012, two
hunters in eastern Russia discovered a
limp bundle of striped fur lying in the
snow. It was a tiger cub! The orphan
hadn’t eaten in days, and the tip of her
tail was black from frostbite.
“She was weak enough for the
hunters just to pick her up,” recalls
Dr. Dale Miquelle, director of the
Wildlife Conservation Society’s Russia
Program. “A healthy tiger cub, even a
three-month-old one, would give you
reason to pause before you stuck your
hand too close to its teeth and claws.
This cub had no fight left in her.”

“She was weak enough

for the hunters just to
pick her up.”
The hunters wrapped the cub in
a coat and delivered her to a local
wildlife inspector, Andrey Oryol. Over
the following weeks, Oryol nursed the
Zolushka’s orphaned cub back to health. But now
success is a he had a new problem: what could he do
sign of hope with a feisty three-month-old tiger?
for other
Amur tigers The Amur Tiger’s New Hope
like this one. The cub was an Amur (AH-moor)
tiger. They are also called Siberian
tigers, though scientists prefer the name

20 MARCH 2018 Photos: page 20 by Arron Barnes/Alamy Stock Photo;

page 21 by Dale Miquelle/Bastak Nature Reserve.
Amur. “Technically, tigers do not
live in Siberia, but the Russian
Far East,” explains Dr. Miquelle.
He is an American biologist and
has studied Amur tigers in
Russia for nearly 25 years.
The big cats are named after
the Amur River, the largest river
in that region. Only about 400
Amur tigers remain in the wild,
so scientists want to return
rescued cubs to their natural
habitat. “In the past, we always
shipped cubs off to zoos,” says
Dr. Miquelle. “Now we have a
way to give them a second
chance at life in the wild.”
She grew into a big,
healthy tigress.
He and a co-worker took
the orphaned cub to a new
wildlife rehabilitation center in
Alekseevka, Russia. The center
was designed for raising wild
animals without exposing them
to people. It uses hidden
cameras and covered fences to
keep workers out of sight. That
way, the animals don’t lose their
natural instincts and become
dependent on humans.
The cub, now named Zolushka
(Russian for “Cinderella”),
became the center’s first tiger.
Over the next year, she grew
into a big, healthy tigress. In the
center, she learned to hunt deer,
wild boar, and other live prey.
By the spring of 2013, experts
agreed she was ready to return
to the wild.
They chose the perfect new
kingdom for their tiger princess:
the Bastak Nature Reserve.
“The region where we released
Zolushka had tigers some
50 years ago, but they have since
gone extinct (in that region),”
Dr. Miquelle says. “It is not clear
why the tigers disappeared, but
it was probably a combination of
factors.” People had been cutting
down the forest and hunting too
many of the animals that tigers
eat. Also, poachers (illegal
hunters) were hunting the
tigers themselves.
Today, tigers have more
protection from those threats
than ever before, but the
dangers can come back at any
time. Conservationists work
constantly to protect tigers and
their habitat. “Their survival
rests solely in the hands of
humans,” says Dr. Miquelle.
Happily Ever After?
During the next two years,
researchers watched Zolushka’s
progress. They set up cameras
that used motion detectors or
heat sensors to snap photos.
When Zolushka passed in front
of one of these “camera traps,” it
took her picture. Zolushka not
only survived, but thrived.
Then, in December 2015, the
cameras revealed exciting news:
Zolushka had become a mother!
For the first time ever, a tiger
Zolushka was
near death when
hunters rescued
her. A veterinarian
surgically removed
the frostbitten tip of
her tail. After just a
week or two of care
and feeding, she was
lively and dangerous.
that humans had raised and
returned to the wild had given
birth to two cubs of her own.
In 2015, the
cameras revealed
exciting news!
Zolushka’s storybook success
is a sign of hope for tigers. “It is
possible to return orphaned cubs
to the wild,” Dr. Miquelle says.
“Even more importantly,
Zolushka has demonstrated that
there are ways to recolonize
habitat that has been lost.”
Tigers are some of the
most admired animals on
our planet, but they are also
endangered. Thanks to the
work of conservationists like
Dr. Miquelle, there is new hope
for these magnificent cats. “We
need to save the tigers,” says
Dr. Miquelle, “as much for our
own sake as for theirs.”
MARCH 2018 21
 Monster One rainy day, Lucy was stuck inside.

Gets Real
By Natasha Wing • Art by Lee Cosgrove
She drew a monster friend.

Want to
draw with
me?

ROAR.

Lucy drew a tree. She drew apples on the tree. Lucy gave the monster some markers.

Those
apples
aren’t real. RIDE. That
FOOD!
spaceship
isn’t real.

Those bugs
aren’t real. SCARY.

ICKY. Those sharks

aren’t real.

22
Monster drew everywhere. Lucy’s mom was not happy.

Who made Monster

this mess? did.

Uh-oh!

Monsters aren’t
real. You’d better
clean this up.

Lucy and Monster scrubbed and wiped until everything was clean.

Thank
you! You’re LOVE! That’s real.
the best.

REALLY?

23
 20° cooler 3° warmer 6° cooler 18° warmer
82° than than than than
Monday Monday Tuesday Thursday

Wacky Weather
By Sherry Timberman

This week’s five-day forecast in Sum Town is a little

wacky. Help Addie Temp calculate each day’s forecasted
high temperature. Then answer the questions below.

1. Which day will be the warmest?

2. Which day will be the coolest?

3. How many degrees warmer will

the warmest day be compared
to the coolest day?

Answers on page 38.

1. ORGF BONUS!
Go Green! 2. SAGSR
3. KEPILC
4. LDMEEAR
Unscram
green let
another g
ble the
ters to na
reen thin
me
By Teresa A. DiNicola 5. TTCEEUL H INT: It’s g.
an Irish
6. HSICPNA emblem.
Unscramble each set of letters to 7. LLDRAO
name something that is usually green. 8. SGPRAAAUS
Answers on page 38.
24 MARCH 2018
 a w s nd
Maple-Sap Tapping P a
Think

What time of year is this?

How can you tell?
How is gathering sap from wild
maple trees different from planting
and harvesting crops on a farm?
Have you tried real maple syrup?
What other foods are similar
in taste or texture? Sweet on the
inside—just
What are some other foods that
like me!
come from trees?

Art by David Coulson.

 Your Ideas,
Please!
We asked you to help three
of our readers who wrote to
us for advice. Here are some
of your great suggestions.
Don’t think
about what other
people have done.
Think about
all the things
you have done.
Everyone is different
and has done different
things.
Anthony Polomene
Age 9 • New York
Curing
If you are jealous of things
Jealousy you could learn to do, like
sports, you might want to give
Sometimes I am
them a try. If you are jealous of
jealous of everyone,
even people in books. something another person has or
does, focus on all of the things
Can you help?
you have and get to do!
Ari (by e-mail)
Cassidy Hazel
Age 9 • Connecticut
Busting
Boredom
I get bored very
easily. How can I
do things without
becoming bored?
Isabella, Virginia
26 MARCH 2018
When you are jealous of
a real person, you can talk to
your parents. That can help
get your jealous feelings out.
Aven Stalker
Age 7 • North Carolina
Being jealous won’t get you
anywhere except more jealousy.
The best way to exterminate
this beast is to ask yourself,
Are you sure you don’t want to
be unique? Will you be happy if
you get what everyone else gets?
Wenyi Situ
Age 11 • Arizona
If you like drawing, try
drawing yourself doing the same
thing the other person is doing.
Alex Garner
Age 11 • Alabama
You can make a list of
things you like to do. Then
pick one of the things on
the list. Once you’re tired
of doing that, pick another
thing from the list.
Callum Bridgers
Age 10 • New York
Art by Keith Frawley.

Try to make new friends
in your class. If you are
friendly to everyone, have
a good attitude, and look
at everyone with an open
mind, you should have new
friends in no time!
Natalya Cody-Rapport
Age 11 • Florida
I know exactly how
you feel! You could keep
a journal and write about
your different experiences.
You can also keep a picture of
all your friends in your desk
or locker. When you glance
at the picture, you won’t
feel lonely.
Suhani Jhaveri
Age 10 • New Jersey
Think about what you
love to do. For example,
if you love to knit, choose
a project that involves
knitting, like making a
scarf. Pretty soon, you’ll
be so wrapped up in the
project, you won’t be bored!
Ellie Mano
Age 8 • Texas
Separated
Friends
All of my friends are
in a different class! I only
get to play with them
at recess. What should
I do?
Samaya (by e-mail)
Try to make the most of
your time with your friends
by playing different games
every day.
Asher Taranowski
Age 9 • Ohio
You could try doing
things for short periods of
time and then move on to
something else, like centers
or stations. For example,
you could play ball for five
minutes, draw with chalk
for five minutes, and jump
rope for five minutes.
Aurelia Gagliardi
Age 6 • California
When you have time, you
should start trying to make
new friends. You could start
by introducing yourself and
telling stuff about you, such
as your favorite movie or if
you have a pet. If you keep in
touch with your old friends,
you can hang out with them
with your new friends.
Benji Roskes
Age 10 • Washington, D.C.
If you and your friends
have similar interests,
you can try joining a club,
volunteering, or many
more things!
Kathryn Su
Age 10 • Texas
I made a Boredom
Buster jar for myself.
Write ideas for what to
do on slips of paper. Put
them in a jar. Whenever
you’re bored, take a
random one out. You can
make a travel edition
or ones for different
members of your family.
Isabel Killian
Age 9 • Wisconsin
MARCH 2018 27
From Two Different
“What’s that?
Where’s the
report?”
I have a problem. Her name
is Luca. Luca and I do not see
eye to eye.
Like yesterday. One of our
division problems had the
number 9,999. “Ooh!” she said.
“All those nines. They feel so . . .
so purple!”
Purple? I see numbers as
logical and orderly. Not as colors.
I think Luca and I live in
different universes.
And now our teacher has just
assigned Luca to be my partner
28 MARCH 2018
By Cynthia Light Brown • Art by Joy Steuerwald
for a class project. We have to do
a report on the Statue of Liberty.
No way can I work with someone
who says nines feel purple.
“You two will do fine, Jess,”
my teacher says, probably
Luca and I do not
see eye to eye.
How can we work
together on
a class project?
because he notices the worried
expression on my face.
Ha! How can he be sure?
At our first meeting on
Friday, Luca and I come up with
a plan. Luca will make a five-
foot-tall Statue of Liberty, and
I’ll write the report. I give Luca
half the money she’ll need for
art supplies, and she buys
everything over the weekend.
But on Monday, with only one
week until our report is due,
Luca tells me she’s suddenly
leaving to visit her great-
grandfather for six days. She
would build the statue while
she’s away except there’d be no
room for it in the car on the way
home. Which means that I, the
one who can’t even draw a
stick figure, will have to make
the statue. And she, the one who
doesn’t like to think logically,
will have to write the report.
Brilliant.
I remind her of some things
she should include in the report,
such as how tall the statue is
and when and why it was made.
“Please be at my house at
2:00 on Sunday,” I say. I cross
my fingers.
While she’s gone, I make the
sculpture according to some
directions my mom and I find
online. Chicken wire, papier-
mâché, green paint, and lots
of hours.
Sunday at 2:00 arrives, and
Luca is late. I pace the driveway,
wondering if she even did her
part of the assignment. Finally,
I see her skipping down the
Universes
sidewalk carrying only a small
piece of equipment.
“What’s that?” I ask. “Where’s
the report?”
“It’s a digital recorder,” she
says. “A report didn’t feel right,
so I did something else.”
I try to keep my voice calm as
I say, “But this is not about
feelings. It’s about the Statue
of Liberty. Statues don’t have
feelings.” Our project is due
tomorrow. We’re doomed.
“Statues don’t have feelings,
but my great-grandfather does,”
Luca says.
Now I know we’re from
different universes because
I have no idea what she’s
talking about.
“I interviewed him about
when he came to America and
“This is what
the Statue of
Liberty
feels like.”
saw the Statue of Liberty,” she
continues. “Listen.” She turns on
the recording.
A scratchy voice comes on. “In
Hungary, I had no food. A turnip,
maybe a potato. Sometimes I
had to beg for bread. Months I
waited, hoping to go to America,
where I could eat, have a better
life. Finally I got on a ship.
Weeks of cold . . . wind . . .
waiting. Rats crawling on my
legs at night.”
I look sideways at Luca. Her
nose is scrunched up. So is mine.
He keeps talking. “One
morning, when it was still dark,
someone shouted, ‘America!’
Everybody crowded on deck,
packed like sardines. So many of
us on one side, the ship tilted!
Then the sunshine started. Oh!
There she was, Lady Liberty.
Like hope itself. All of us, we
cried—such joy. You cannot
know how we cried. All my life,
I remember that feeling, of
seeing the Lady.”
Luca turns off the recording
and says, “He talks more, about
living in Pennsylvania and
working in the steel mills.”
“You’re right. That’s
what the Statue of
Liberty is all about.
The people who come
to America.”
I think awhile. I look at Luca.
“You’re right,” I say quietly.
“That’s what the Statue of
Liberty is all about. The people
who come to America. But we’re
supposed to have a report.”
I think awhile longer. “Well, who
says a report has to be on paper?”
The next day, we put our
statue in the middle of the room.
Everyone stares at it. Some of the
kids touch the folds of her dress.
I tell them, “This is what the
Statue of Liberty looks like.”
And I talk about the real statue’s
height and what it’s made of and
other basic information.
When I’m done, Luca stands
up and tells the class about her
great-grandfather. We pass
around photographs of him as
a young man. Then Luca says,
“This is what the Statue of
Liberty feels like,” and she starts
the recording.
When her great-grandfather
says “All my life, I remember that
feeling, of seeing the Lady,”
everyone is staring at our
statue, quiet.
Luca and I did fine. Brilliant,
in fact.
MARCH 2018 29
 Stands
up.
Sits up
Pushes down with straight.
hands and pulls knees
Pulls hands and forward to place its
toes forward. weight directly above
its feet.

Getting Back The Key to Balance

in the Game For a robot to stay balanced while
standing, it has to keep its center of
gravity directly above its feet. The center
You can’t keep NimbRo down! of gravity is the point, often near the
center of an object, that has an equal
By Andy Boyles, Contributing Science Editor
amount of weight on opposite sides.
The human body also has a center of
When athletes fall worldwide robot-soccer gravity. Like a robot, when a person
down on the field, what competition, RoboCup, stands on one foot,
do they do? They get up have no “get-up” routine. the center of
and get back in the game! But the NimbRo team gravity must shift
After a tumble, and several others are to one side until it
champion soccer robot robots that keep getting is directly over that
NimbRo also back on their foot. That’s why
stands up feet. So these you can’t stand on
and keeps
The crowd teams have a one foot if that foot
playing. cheered big advantage. is pressed against
Unlike a Two NimbRo the side of a wall.
human
when they teams, both The wall blocks the
athlete, saw NimbRo developed center of gravity
NimbRo at Bonn from moving over
had to be
stand up! University the foot.
programmed in Germany, This robot
with the exact arm, leg, won first-place trophies design, named igus,
and body movements that in their size classes is used by many
put it back on its feet. at RoboCup 2017 in research groups.
Many robots in the Nagoya, Japan.

30 MARCH 2018 Art by Robert L. Prince.

 One of Mr. Brush’s students forgot to
put his or her name on this painting in
art class today. Can you help Mr. Brush
Who
figure out who painted it?
HINT: Look at the paint colors in each easel tray. Painted
This? By Mike Vreeland

BONUS!
Find six
paintbru
shes in
the scene
.

Answers on
page 38.

Please include your name,

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The Brazilian
l
sner

Leandro Barbosa made

his dreams come true.
Beep, beep! Here comes one of
the fastest basketball players
on earth. This player is so
fast that by the time you
turn around,
he’s already
dropping
the ball
into the
basket.
This
player
is so fast
that people
call him the Brazilian Blur.
His real name is Leandro
Barbosa. He has played as a
guard in the National Basketball
Association (NBA) since 2003,
and he won a championship
with the Golden State Warriors
in 2015.
In addition to being a great
player, Leandro Barbosa is a
really nice guy. Always smiling,
he is known for being kind to
young fans, making people laugh,
and cheering up his teammates
when they’re having a bad day.
“When you want To the outside world, life may
something, you seem easy for someone like
him—a famous basketball
definitely have to player who lives in a big
work for it.” house and wears cool
new sneakers.
Photos: page 32 by Barry Gossage/Getty
32 MARCH 2018 Images; page 33 by Jesse D. Garrabrant/
Getty Images. Map by iStock/luckyvector.
 But life has not always been
like this for Leandro Barbosa.
Growing Up in Brazil
Leandro grew up in a poor
neighborhood, called a favela,
in São Paulo, Brazil. He shared
a small house with his mom,
dad, brothers, and sisters. They
didn’t have money for beds, so
Leandro slept on a dirt f loor in
the same room with all four of
his older siblings.
He practiced all the
time—even if it was
raining or cold outside.
There were days when his
family didn’t have enough food
to eat. But Leandro’s brothers
and sisters always looked after
him—they fed him first, even if
it meant they would go hungry.
Leandro didn’t have shoes, so he
played soccer barefoot.
At age four, Leandro started
working to help his family earn
money. He sold fruit at an
outdoor market and carried
groceries for people.
When Leandro’s mom put
him to bed at night, she would
say, “Be happy no matter what.
Life is short. Enjoy the day you
have. Be happy and smile.”
When Leandro was five, he
started playing basketball.
“My brother taught me,” he
remembers, “and every day
I asked for more teaching.”
When Leandro was six,
he told his family he wanted
to become a professional
basketball player. “Mom,”
he said, “I’m going to bring
money home to you.
I’m going to work hard.”
There were no basketball
courts near their house, so
Leandro’s brother Arturo signed
him up for a basketball club
on the other side of the city.
Leandro had to ride four buses
just to get there.
Leandro’s skills improved. He
carried his basketball with him
everywhere. Arturo made sure
that his little brother practiced
all the time—even if it was
raining or cold outside.
Leandro dreamed about
playing in the NBA. He read
about superstars like Michael
Jordan and watched games on
TV at a friend’s house.
By high school, Leandro
was a standout player. He still
didn’t have money for sneakers,
so he wore old ones that his
teammates didn’t need anymore.
When he was just 19 years
old, Leandro was the youngest
player to make the Brazilian
Barbosa with the
NBA championship
trophy in 2015.
IL
o de
neiro
São
Paulo
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Leandro
Barbosa has twice represented his
home country in the Olympics—most
recently, in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
National Team. He traveled to
the United States for the World
Championship. NBA scouts
watched him play—and they
were impressed.
Making It to the NBA
The following year, the
Phoenix Suns picked Leandro
Barbosa to be on their team.
When the coaches gave him a
tour of the fancy locker room—
and when Leandro saw his own
name on a locker—he couldn’t
believe his eyes. “It was
everything beautiful for me,”
he said. “I never saw something
like that . . . the arena, the TVs,
and the refrigerator with all
those Gatorades.”
Leandro was so happy, he
wanted to sleep in the locker
room that night. “I want to enjoy
my dream,” he explained. “I
want to make sure I’m here.”
The coaches were surprised,
but they let him spend the
night there.
After all his hard work,
Leandro deserved to enjoy that
special moment. His childhood
dream had finally come true.
MARCH 2018 33
 Your Own
Pages Leon Stoltzfus
Age 11 • Pennsylvania

Butterflies
Butterf lies f ly
High in the sky
Butterf lies are cute
They are sweet as fru
it

But there’s one problem

!

There’s one more thing

That butterf lies do—
They tickle you!
Mahika Kapoor
Age 6 • Virginia
bow
Somewhere over the Rain
ow
Somewhere over the rainb
s,
Live lots of wondrous thing
s and loll ipops
Like gumdrop
Spring is coming. And shiny diamond rings.
The grass is green. ow,
Somewhere over the rainb
ms at stake,
The snow is melting. Where there are no proble
over the rainbow,
Jameson I’d like to live somewhere
ke.
Age 7 • Missouri Next to Chocolate Milk La
Maggie Sheehan
Age 9 • Illinois

Fairies, fairies,
Chick on a Cello come and play.
Jaidyn Stultz Fairies, fairies,
Age 9 • Maine
come to me
Winter today.
I think winter is nice Fairies, fairies, watch
with all the splinters of ice
hanging from the trees, out for the cat.
and when the breeze blows, One more thing,
Tiger the snow grows,
fairies, bring your
Anna Claggett and allows me to sled with ease.
Age 8 • New Hampshire Gabriel LaPointe summer hat!
Age 9 • California Jean Palumbo
Age 7 • Indiana
34 MARCH 2018
 Outside Light
The sun shines
like a day moon,
which shines and shines
till the day is done.
My Team
Trustworthy
The moon shines
like a night sun,
Excellent friends
which shines and shines Awesome teamwork
till the night is done. Making memories
Consuelo Bowman Hope Walker
Age 8 • Connecticut Age 9 • New Jersey
Medieval Castle
Liesl Alexander
Vroom, vroom goes Age 11 • Massachusetts
that car, driving,
driving really far.
A car is the best.
Flower Dancers
It is going on a quest.
Ian Paes
Beautiful, silky petals
Age 7 • Wisconsin Fan out like a dress
So elegant they are,
Dressed to impress
Dancing but still
At the same time
Swif tly turning
To the rhymes
Spinning sashaying,
Laughing, pliéing,
These graceful dancers
Come in all sizes and doings
Tulips or roses or dahlias or daisies
It really is quite crazy
That a plant from a seed
Berkley Dryden Can be such an elegant being
Madelyn Age 8 • Kansas
Anna Dietz
Madelyn Belle Ohl Age 11 • Connecticut
Age 9 • Ohio

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Creative Work
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Age 7 • Kentucky Honesdale, PA 18431
Friendship, Spelled
Helen Keller’s dogs were
comforting companions.
By Barb Rosenstock

Six-year-old Helen Keller sat

on the f loor, hugging her dog,
Belle. An illness at age one had
made Helen blind and deaf.
Trapped by her dark, silent
world, she threw tantrums.
Being unable to communicate
“made me so angry at times that
I kicked and screamed until I
was exhausted,” she later wrote.
But dogs made her feel better.
She buried her nose in their fur
and felt the gentle wag of their
tails. Dogs were comforting—
“My dog patient and accepting.
friends seem
to understand Teacher’s Game
my limitations, To help Helen, the Kellers
and always keep hired teacher Annie Sullivan.
close beside me,” Annie made finger movements
Helen wrote. in Helen’s hand to stand for
Here, at age 22, words, but Helen couldn’t grasp
she snuggles what they meant. She tried
with Phiz. making the motions on Belle’s
paw. Maybe Belle would
understand this game.
For weeks, Annie “talked” into
As a kid, Helen Helen’s hands. Then one day, it
described herself all made sense! The movements
as “the little girl in her hand stood for things
who loves dogs around her. Water. Teacher. Dog!
and all other Excited to understand, Helen
animals.” wanted to learn more. She soon
mastered finger spelling, then
braille, reading, typing, and
writing. And, without hearing
speech, she learned to talk.
During Helen’s childhood in
the late 1800s, many people

36 MARCH 2018 Images courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind,

Watertown, MA, except page 37 (top) iStock/
wundervisuals and (bottom center) iStock/KPGS.
D–O–G
believed that a person who was
deaf and blind could not live a
useful life. Helen disagreed. She
hiked, swam, and rode horses,
with her dogs tagging along.
And she was determined to go
to college. So with Annie by her
side, she left her family and dogs
behind to attend Radcliffe.
Without a Dog, Until . . .
College was difficult. Books
and conversation had to be
spelled into her hand, letter by
letter. Few people communicated
with her. She felt lonely.
Then her classmates bought
her a surprise—a Boston
bull terrier! Helen nicknamed
him Phiz because he had “the
drollest ‘phiz’ [face] in dogdom.”
A faithful companion, he is said
to have gone with her to classes.
Helen graduated with honors
and wrote an autobiography, the
first of her several books. She
and Annie shared a house with
many dogs, including mastiffs,
collies, spaniels, terriers, setters,
and a dachshund. Helen wrote,
lectured, and worked for the
rights of people with disabilities
and for peace and justice.
Around the world, people read
about Helen and admired her.
Sorrow and Comfort
After Annie died, Helen went
overseas on a speaking trip with
another companion. But she
dearly missed “Teacher.”
Once again, a dog helped. In
Japan, Helen admired Akitas, a
local breed. The Japanese made
arrangements to give one to her!
She returned home with “Kami,”
the first Akita in America. Of
this “angel in fur,” she wrote,
“If I cried from loneliness for my
beloved teacher, he would put
his big paw on my knee and
press his cool nose against my
cheek and lick away the tears.”
When Kami died, Helen felt
that “another joy has gone out of
my life.” Hearing of her loss, the
Japanese sent Kami’s brother,
“Go-Go,” to her as a new friend.
Friends All Around
Helen lived with up to eight
dogs at once, writing, “I love
their affectionate ways and the
eloquent wag of their tails.” She
wrote that if she could see for
just three days, during that
time she would “like to look into
the loyal, trusting eyes of my
dogs . . . whose warm, tender,
and playful friendships are so
comforting to me.”
“Dogs have
travelled all
over the world
with me. They
have always
been my
companions.”

“A dog
has never
failed
me.”
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Skateboarding the store?
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Picture Puzzler
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Too Much of
a Good Thing
By Lissa Rovetch • Art by Amanda Morley
Dear Maxing Out,
One of my best friends on
the planet is named Mareya. If
you’d told us a month ago that
there’d come a point when we’d
need space from each other, we
would’ve said “Not a chance!”
But then Mareya’s family won
a five-day stay in a mountain
cabin. Because Mareya’s sister,
Alana, was spending the week
with her grandparents, Mareya’s
mom and dad said I could come
along instead.
When I told my parents about
the awesome invitation, my mom
said, “That sounds fun, but keep
in mind that five days is a long
time to spend with a friend.”
I shook my head. “Mareya
40 MARCH 2018
and I are just like peanut
butter and jelly. We’re happy
sticking together. Plus, the
cabin is near trails where we
can try snowshoeing and other
outdoor stuff.”
“Well, I’ll have to call Mareya’s
parents to get the details, but it
should be OK,” said my mom.
A few weeks later, Mareya
and her parents and I arrived
at an adorable cabin surrounded
by snow-covered pine trees.
“What a great place!”
Mareya’s dad said.
“Five days is a long
time to spend with a
friend,” my mom said.
said Mareya’s mom, glancing
at the sky. “Let’s hope it means
snow and not rain. The forecast
was iffy.”
As you might have guessed,
the clouds did mean rain. LOTS
of rain. And since our major
plans involved snowshoeing
and sledding and watching for
winter wildlife, we were stuck.
“I guess we’ll have to find
something else to do,” said
Mareya as we stared at the
snow getting washed away.
We found a couple of board
games and a pack of cards
and sat down. At first, it was
cozy and fun, but we ended up
playing those games for about
100 hours, stopping only to eat
and sleep! (OK, that might be
a tiny exaggeration.)
“I can’t play anymore,” I said
on the third day. “How about
we just read by ourselves for
a while?”
“I have a better idea,”
said Mareya. “How about we
sing instead?”
“I think a little quiet time
would be nice,” I said, opening
a book I had brought.
“Oh, come on! Don’t be boring.
I’ll pick the first song.” Mareya
started singing “Somewhere
over the Rainbow.”
“Could you please leave me
alone?” I snapped.
“Wow! Happily!” she snapped
back. “How about we both leave
each other alone forever?!”
“Fine with me!” I said.
“Fine with me, too!” she said.
But it was a tiny cabin with
zero place to go. So leaving each
other alone really wasn’t an
option. I sat in one chair, trying
to read, and she sat in another,

“I guess we’ll have
to find something
else to do.”
singing song after song.
“Hey, girls,” Mareya’s dad
said on his way to refill his cup
of tea. “Want to tell me what
the problem is?”
“There’s no problem,”
said Mareya.
“No problem at all!” I agreed.
He smiled. “Let’s hear it.”
“Arizona’s being cranky and
rude,” Mareya blurted.
“I just want some peace and
quiet!” I blurted.
“This makes me think of the
expression ‘too much of a good
thing,’” Mareya’s dad said. “You
know how one piece of cake tastes
delicious, but 10 pieces of cake
is too much? Spending every
second with anyone—even your
favorite person—is like eating
too much cake.”
“I guess that makes sense,”
Mareya said. She looked
at me. “I’m sorry for not
understanding, Arizona.”
“I’m sorry for snapping at
you,” I said.
The happiest part is
that Mareya and I are
still great friends.
This story has a surprise
happy ending. The weather got
way better on the fourth day
of our trip, so we actually got
to go outside. And even though
it was muddy, the hiking was
incredibly fun! The happiest part
of all is that Mareya and I are
still great friends. We just make
sure to give each other some space
when we need it.
So, dear Maxing Out, I know
every situation is different, but
spending every minute with
anyone can get to be a lot. If you
do separate things now and then,
you may find that you and your
friend appreciate the time you
have together even more.
Ciao for now,
Arizona
“Want to tell me what
the problem is?”
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