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What does a
cat use to stir
1 pancake batter?

Madilyn Murchison, Texas

Kate has a kite and a cat. What is harder to catch 2
Kate made a cake for her cat. the faster you run?
The cat ate the cake, Henry Staykov, Tennessee
and Kate flew the kite.

Joey What is a dog’s
Age 9 • China 3 favorite vegetable?
Bryn Ienna, Oregon

page 20 Why did the child cross 4
the playground?
Answers Make a Move Aiden Karrh, South Carolina
House 1 = 112 miles per week.
House 2 = 110 miles per week.
House 3 = 74 miles per week.
House 4 = 116 miles per week. How can you
page 2 Mr. and Mrs. Melody should 5

Fun This Month move into House 3 to travel tell when a
Lily’s Lollipops the fewest miles each week.
What’s the Word?
Mystery Photo—Spork.
1. NAP. 2. HOUSE. 3. BACK or traffic light
page 12 BARN. 4. OVER. 5. MAN.
6. SHORE. 7. BOARD. 8. FISH.
My Sci is sick?
Disappearing Act—We page 31
see objects because light Madeline Powers, New York
reflects off them and Missing Microphone
travels to our eyes. Usually Gerry Raffe finished practicing at 6:58. What kind of bird doesn’t
light moves through air. He could have taken the microphone go to the barber? 6
But it travels a bit more between 7:00 and 7:09. Jack Kocha, Wisconsin
slowly through water than
through air. The light bends, page 43
or “refracts,” where the air Picture
and water meet. When you Puzzler What has 10 wheels and flies?
stand to one side of the 7 Rhys Christensen, North Carolina
glass, the light reflecting
off it bounces to a different
spot rather than to your
eyes. Light can play a What is an airplane’s
disappearing act on you! Owen Adams-Mao, California 8
favorite holiday?

Covers: Happy Spring! by Shiloh Gordon; What’s Wrong? by Kelly Kennedy
Illustration credits: Page 2: Kevin Zimmer; 13: (dog) Michelle Simpson, (map) Josh Lewis; 20: Make a Move by Chris
Eliopoulos, What’s the Word? by Joey Ellis; 38: Pat Lewis; 39: Erin Mauterer, except (speech balloons) by iStock/Getty
Images/lattesmile, (lightning bolts) by iStock/Getty Images/Sudowoodo. Photo credits: Page 2: (gummy bear) E+/Getty
Images/subjug, (television) iStock/Getty Images/turk_stock_photographer, (plastic eggs) iStock/Getty Images/Patrick26, What did the baby corn
(spork) iStock/Getty Images Plus/busypix; 3: Gina Lenz; 4: (penguin) iStock/Getty Images Plus/JamesMDrakeMedia;
4–5: (boys) iStock/Getty Images Plus/monkey business images; 12: (top) Eye of Science/Science Source, (bottom) Jim say to the mama corn?
Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.; 15: iStock/Getty Images/Eerik; 21 and 25: (background) iStock/Getty Images Plus/natrot; 9 Izetta Jones, Arkansas
22: (trees) iStock/Getty Images Plus/Damocean; 23: Liv Oeian/Alamy Stock Photo; 24: courtesy of Mahendran Thivakaran;
23 and 24: (background) E+/Getty Images/sorendls; 25: iStock/Getty Images Plus/photka; 39: (boy) E+/Getty Images/
wundervisuals, (hockey player) iStock/Getty Images/Jonah_H, (horse) iStock/Getty Images/Ambramova_Kseniya, (dog)
iStock/Getty Images/GlobalP, (bee) iStock/Getty Images/Antagain, (pickle) iStock/Getty Images/domnicky, (whistle) iStock/ (the skies). 9. “Where’s popcorn?”
Getty Images/suthep onsrithong, (insect) iStock/Getty Images/nechaev-kon. 8. Halloween, because it can go in disguise

38 APRIL 2020 6. A bald eagle. 7. A garbage truck. 4. To get to the other slide. 5. It turns green. 1. A whisk-er. 2. Your breath. 3. Bark-oli.