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The Falk Free Press Guide to Preventing the Summer Slide
by Britany Ugalde, Ajah Dye and Patricia Fenne Garcia
Summer time is great for a lot of reasons. It’s warmer, there’s no school, there’s no rules, and there’s so much free time. With almost three months of summer vacation, it is important to add in some reading to your free time. At Falk Free Press we think that reading over the summer is vital to helping prevent summer slide. The summer slide happens when kids don’t read or do any academics over the summer. This causes kids to forget a lot of what they have learned during the school year, making their reading and literacy levels “slide” downward.
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Tricky and Dangerous Creatures Poison and Befuddle Their Prey
by Yesenia Martinez, age 12, Wright Free Press
Some animals have evolved defenses that are scary and dangerous. Here’s a few you might want to avoid. Arrow poison frogs, from South America, have bright skins that are very poisonous. The native people extract their venom so they can use on their arrow tips. That is how they got their name.
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Illegal Ivory Trade Continues, Elephant Population Pays Devastating Price
by Masha Vodyanyk, age 17, Simpson Street Free Press
Elephant tusks are composed of ivory, a white, bone-like material. Currently, up to 35,000 of the estimated 500,000 living African elephants are slaughtered every year for their ivory tusks. Tusks from a single male elephant weigh more than 250 pounds. On the black market, one pound of ivory is valued as high as $1,500.
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Book Review: Revolution
is Not a Dinner Party
reviewed by Ali Khan, age 16, Simpson Street Free Press
Yin Chang Compesine's novel Revolution is Not a Dinner Party tells the story of nine-year-old Ling Chang and her upper-class family during the 1960's Cultural Revolution in China. Led by the Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong, the Cultural Revolution was a social-political movement that lasted from 1966-1976. The goal was to enforce communism and replace capitalist, traditional, and cultural ideals from Chinese society.
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Trick or Treat: Sugar Consumption Found Toxic, Lethal
by Irie Jackson, age 9, Glendale Free Press
In America, sugar consumption has increased substantially since the 1970’s. The average American kid now eats more than 20 teaspoons of sugar per day. A recent study from the University of Utah indicates that high sugar intake not only has negative effects on health but also may be toxic.
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Los teotihuacanos, los mayas
y los zapotecos
por Melody Krishnan, 16 años, La Prensa Libre de Simpson Street
Los teotihuacanos, los mayas y los zapotecos eran grupos indígenas diferentes quienes vivieron durante el Periodo Clásico. Sus civilizaciones tuvieron semejanzas y diferencias, y a pesar de haber logrado grandes avances, estas civilizaciones eventualmente sufrieron una gran caída.
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Mount Rushmore Was Built
on Sacred Sioux Ground
by Cristian Cruz, age 12, Wright Free Press
In the Black Hills of South Dakota, there is a curious looking mountain. Standing just over a mile high (5,725 feet), Mount Rushmore has four faces of American presidents carved into it: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
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