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Jonathan Jaramillo, 11, is an aspiring dancer who recently had the life-changing opportunity of dancing

back-up for Justin Bieber at his recent Denver concert, which was part of the ‘Purpose’ tour.

After intensely readying himself for the performance by running over the choreography many times, he prepared to dance with one of the most renowned musicians in the world.

Reliving the fantastical experience he admits to feeling numb, “I was kind of numb, honestly, I didn’t feel anything: it was just so fun.”

He has been dancing since he was four years old and now attends Denver School of the Arts where he dances over 40 hours a week.

At the concert, Beliebers, as Bieber fans are known, went wild and after the show people kept asking for pictures with Jonathan.

Striving to become a professional hip hop dancer, he hopes to get similar experiences such as this one and share the stage with more celebrities.

Dancing with Bieber is just one, of many, adventures that he’d like to have.

Michael Jackson has been an important role model in Jonathan’s life and he wants to make people smile just as Jackson did.

He has won various awards and winning the competition for a chance to dance with Justin Bieber may just be one of many milestones in his career as a dancer.

CK Reporter of the WeekKenna Haverkamp, Denver

April 19 , 2016

Talented local dancer joins the Bieb on stage

In “The Jungle Book,” Disney’s new computer animated movie, a ‘man-cub’ Mowgli, played in live-action form by Neel Sethi, has been raised by the Seeonee wolf pack since birth in the wild . Now he is threatened by an evil tiger named Shere

Khan (voiced by Idris Elba). If you are the type who likes twists and turns, this is the movie for you, because

during the movie there was a lot of action and many thrilling scenes. Many times my heart was beating fast, for something would jump out or happen

so quickly that it would surprise me.With help from the serious panther, Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), Mowgli runs away

to the man village, but he wants to stay in the jungle. He almost gets eaten by a huge snake named Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), then ends

up with the hilarious bear named Baloo (Bill Murray), who was one of my favorite characters in the movie.

With Baloo, they hunt honey for his “hibernation” which is one of the best and one of the most humorous part of the movie. The “Bear Necessities” song even came up from the animated Disney classic, and it was a real crowd-pleaser.

However, while Mowgli is off on his adventure, Shere Khan takes over the wolf pack, and the wolves can do nothing.

In the end, it all comes down to Mowgli versus Shere Khan and the “Red Flower,”

what the jungle folk call fi re.The introduction of the Red Flower really made the story interesting. It made the

viewer look at a new perspective of man and the dangers of fi re and a forest.The special eff ects were excellent: Every single detail was so realistic that every

wolf, tiger, monkey and bear felt so real that you could think somewhere in a jungle, these animals ran, hunted and lived.

Every mark on a tree or leaf on the ground seemed so life-like that the special eff ects were one of the astonishing things that this movie showed, especially in 3-D.

I would recommend this fast-paced movie for adults and kids 10 years old and up.

It certainly isn’t the like the earlier Disney cartoon version of this Rudyard Kipling story: There is violence and many surprises that may be a little frightening for younger viewers. But, for those old enough for that, it is absolutely worth it.

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By Abby Greiner,11, a CK Reporter from Golden

Mowgli’s tale packs fast action

By Clarise Reichley,11, a CK Reporter from Denver

Jonathan Jaramillo, left, dances with Justin Bieber at the Pepsi Center. Photo/Jessica Jaramillo)

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In a world without sound, how can someone start to hear?

In “Soundless,” by bestselling author Richelle Mead, a young Chinese artist named Fei hears a call to action so that she can find a voice to save her home.

Ever since Fei was born, the mountain village she lived in had been soundless.

The village had rocky terrain and avalanches that stopped the villagers from growing their own food.

Their only mercy was the zipline from down below that carried food to the mountaintop.

But when the townspeople started to go blind and the already miniscule deliveries from the zipline stopped, Fei’s home is plunged into crisis.

Suddenly, Fei is awoken by a sound in the night, and hearing becomes her weapon.

As the village falls into a reign of darkness, Fei must team up with an old friend and go down the mountain to get to the bottom of the starvation.

But they find a lot more than they expected as the truth is revealed and the world goes from Soundless

to boundless. The novel, “Soundless,” is breathtaking. With the

astonishing descriptions and solid plot, this book is a pleaser for anyone over the age of 10.

The characters feelings and actions are very relatable even though the circumstances they are put in are full of not-your-everyday fantasy and mystery.

Since the characters’ and descriptions are so well-written, you really feel like you are in this book.

It is also full of action during the rise to the climax, which was very interesting and thrilling. However, there are some sorrowful moments, though a tissue is most likely not needed.

Also, there may be some scary parts to the story as it includes an abandoned village which may creep

some people out. Finally, there is a very unexpected romance that is

not too much but it does add to the story along with the beautiful ending.

This was an extremely well-written book for many different types of readers including, fantasy, mystery, romance, and action.

Kepler telescope overcomes technical glitchNASA’s Kepler Telescope has

been out in space leading the hunt for exo-planets since 2009, but it gave its handlers a scare earlier this month.

When they attempted to contact Kepler, they found that it had put itself into Emergency Mode.

That is close to a shut-down, but the NASA engineers were able to establish contact and lead Kepler through a series of

steps to bring it back on line.Kepler is currently about 75

million miles from the Earth, so it takes 13 minutes for a com-mand to go from here to there or vice-versa.

The telescope is back in operation, though engineers are continuing to try to find out what caused the shut-down.

Kepler has identified more than 1,000 planets outside our solar system, as well as picking

out an additional 3,500 pos-sible objects.

Kepler picks out these things by noticing changes in the light when they pass in front of the star that is their sun, something like when we see an eclipse of our moon.

It has an antenna pointed at the Earth to send back data on these sightings so that scien-tists on the ground can deter-mine what they are. photo/NASA

Descriptive fantasy mixes action, romance

By Kayla Mitchiner,11, a CK Reporter from Golden

There are times when, hidden un-derneath the illusion of an average day, there are

strange and some-times frightening occurrences.

Sometimes, people get pulled into these pecu-liar events and their lives become changed forever.

This is shown in “The Blackthorn Key” by Kevin Sands.

A great novel for ages 10 through 13, a boy is taken on a bizarre journey and is confronted by complex puzzles he will have to solve.

14-year-old Chris-topher Rowe has become the apprentice of an apothecary, and spends his days learning and helping run a small shop.

However, he becomes unsettled when eerie events begin occurring around him.

Using all of the knowledge he has acquired from the apothecary, he must find a way to hide a dangerous weapon from the hands of the ones trying to use it to overthrow the king.

“The Blackthorn Key” describes the adventure-filled story of Christopher as

he tries to uncover secrets, many of which are sinister.

This book is a great read for people who enjoy adventure, puzzles and mystery.

Kevin Sands uses descriptive language that allows the read-er to connect with Christopher’s emo-tions and thoughts, making the novel more enjoyable.

When alarming events keep occur-ring around Christo-pher’s home, he will be confronted by the most complex puzzle he has ever

faced. Will he be able to solve it?

Apothecary’s apprentice

In “Burning Midnight,” by Will McIntosh, David Sullivan is a sphere dealer in New York City. Spheres are

unbreakable objects that have different colors like Teal or Chocolate.

They give you different abilities like improving your looks or providing an adrenaline rush.

Some, like Teal, are cheap, and others are absurdly expensive, like Mustard.

The better the ability it gives you, the more expensive it is.

David meets an expert sphere finder named Hunter Valdez, and together they hunt for spheres.

One day, they learn that Alex Holliday, one of the big names in sphere-selling, has found a new kind of sphere called “Midnight Blue,” and is offering top dollar to whoever finds its match.

David and Hunter hatch a plan to try and find the sphere.

They decide to look in the water tanks above buildings.

After searching hundreds of tanks, they find something.

It’s not the Midnight Blue’s match but something else: a new color sphere.

They know that it’s worth millions, possibly even billions. They also know one other thing: They need to find the other sphere before Holliday gets wind of what they’ve found.

Burning Midnight is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller that will keep you up at night even after you finish it.

I recommend this for older kids because there is a lot of language that makes it PG-13.

Overall, though, I highly recommend this well written novel.

The Sphere Hunters

By Carson Butler,13, a CK Reporter from Littleton

By Jasmine Douglas,12, a CK Reporter from Thornton

Mead enjoyed one-book storyRichelle Mead, the author of Soundless and other

international bestsellers, was recently at the Douglas County Library to talk about her books.

About 100 people were at the presentation and book signing where Mead discussed her personal life, including her love of anything wacky and humorous, bad reality TV, shopping for tour dresses, mythology and folklore, and coffee. She was born in Michigan but now lives in Seattle with her family.

After her presentation about her new YA book, “The Glittering Court,” the audience got to ask questions and get their books signed.

Then we sat down for an interview. Asked about her reason for writing “Soundless,” she

said, “I think the reason is that a lot of books don’t really deal with Chinese mythology, and I think there are a lot of great stories from that tradition.”

She also thought it would be a fun challenge to imagine not being able to hear for your whole life, then being able to very suddenly.

Plus, she said, it was different for her because she often writes series. It changed things up when she wrote “Soundless” as a stand-alone novel, a “wrapped-up adventure tale” that touched on a new culture.

As for the writing process she took, Mrs. Mead knew the beginning and end of the book along with the big moments and started filling in the details as she went along.

She also said she knew that she wanted to have a quiet, yet strong and devoted heroine who dealt with art and symbolism, and another character who was almost a polar opposite to add some variety to the plot.

Mead also likes the big action sequence in “Soundless” that is different from a lot of her other books. She also gave some tips to budding writers: “Keep writing. I learned the most about writing from reading

other people’s books… So keep going with it.” -- Kayla Mitchiner

photo/Malcolm Smith

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Two years ago, a fi sherman rescued an octopus from a crayfi sh trap and brought him to the New Zealand National Aquarium.

The octopus had been damaged in the trap, but they were able to bring him back to health, and they named him “Inky” and made him at home in a tank with another octopus.

But apparently, Inky had other ideas.Octopi are extremely intelligent and can be

taught to solve puzzles and to do tricks.They learn to recognize specifi c people and

enjoy playing games.They can also squeeze through very small

spaces.

An octopus has a beak, but that’s the only hard part of its body, and any space the beak can fi t through, the rest of the octopus can fi t through.

One day, someone left a very small gap at the top of the tank that held Inky and the other octopus.

By morning, that other octopus was the only one in the tank.

Staff found a wet, somewhat slimy trail that went across the fl oor and into a drain pipe.

The drain pipe leads into the ocean.The New Zealand National Aquarium has said

that they have no plans to replace Inky.

Inky makes like Nemo, only this time, it’s not a movie

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is remembered as one of the most important scientists and math-ematicians who ever lived.

The most famous story about Newton is only partly true: People say he was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell and hit him on the head and he realized it had been caused by gravity.

In fact, Newton did see an apple fall one day, and it made him wonder why it fell straight to the ground. As he thought about that, he began to realize that things fall towards the center of the Earth.

Eventually, as Newton thought about these things

and tried experiments and observa-tions, he came up with his theory of gravity.

Newton was an incredibly curious person, who constantly thought about how things happen, which lead him to not only come up with the theory of gravity but also to fi g-ure out ways that light works, and to create the fi rst refl ecting telescope.

He also devised several mathemat-ical theories that led to calculus.

And Newton also came up with laws of motion that are at the core of rocketry and modern machinery as well as simply explaining how mechanical things work.

So people are often surprised to learn that Newton also studied alchemy, but now the Chemical Heritage Foundation has found some of Newton’s papers about his experiments in alchemy.

Alchemy is an ancient science that gets little respect in the modern world, and is thought of either as superstitious or as a fi ctional sort of magic.

In the old days, people were unsure whether maybe alchemists were not really magicians, and this Dutch painting shows an alchemist surrounded by the strange things he worked with.

But alchemy was the study that came before chem-istry, and it was a serious science that was studied by

very intelligent people.Newton was not the only famous

scientist who studied alchemy, which, like chemistry, tried to fi gure out how substances were made, and how they might be unmade.

The biggest goal would be to take a common metal like lead and fi g-ure out how to change it into gold.

This sounds silly today, but they are only one place apart on the atomic scale, and, before scientists knew about atoms, it made sense to think you might be able to change one metal into another.

However, as people like Newton began to use more of what we think

of as a modern approach to science, they realized that alchemy was simply too far off target.

In fact, although Newton spent 30 years studying alchemy, he didn’t talk about it much, which may be why so many of his papers on the subject were hid-den away for nearly 300 years.

Alchemy is no longer considered good science, but the curiosity that made people as “Why?” and “What if? is still very much a part of modern science.

Perhaps studying Sir Isaac Newton’s papers on alchemy will help explain how even studying some-thing that didn’t work eventually led to the kind of science that did.

Newton explored ancient science of alchemy

“Here’s Hank: You Can’t Drink a Meatball Through a Straw” by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, is a another in their

“Here’s Hank” series. Hank is an elementary

school student who has an interesting personality and is also very creative.

Hank’s cousin, Judith Ann, is coming to stay with them for the junior chef’s compe-tition.

She is a great cook, and she is always bragging about it.

During a change of events Hank ends up in the com-petition as well.

In this story you will read about a lunch in a glass, strict judges, meatless meatballs, and surprise emotions.

This book has 128 pages and is aimed for younger kids, ages 6-8, but older kids will still enjoy it.

This is the 7th book in the series, which is printed using a special font called Dyslexie that is made to help people who have dyslexia.

Dyslexia is a reading disorder that is common among children and adults.

I have dyslexia, and it makes it harder for me to read because dyslexia makes the letters on the page look

funny. I actually did find that

font made it easier for me to read this book.

I would rate this book a 7 because even though it was short and based for younger kids, it still made me laugh and made me want to keep reading the

other books in the series. Henry Winkler, who also has dyslexia and is one of the

authors, is also a famous actor who has a star on Holly-wood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

photo(The National Aquarium of New Zealand via AP)

Rules: Every row across, every column down and each of the six smaller boxes must contain numerals 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, one time and one time only.

The solution to this week’s puzzle is on Page 4.

On this day in 1775, by the rude bridge that arched the fl ood, their fl ag to April’s breeze unfurled, the embattled farmers stood and fi red the shot heard round the world, so our answers this week will each begin with the letter “C.”

1. The Massachusetts town where that fi rst shot of the American Revolution was fi red

2. This dog breed shares a name with Mexico’s largest state.

3. White vegetable related to broccoli and cabbage that people think looks like a brain

4. Frontier hero who served a term in Congress and died in the siege of the Alamo

5. Colorado mountain that shelters NORAD’s high-security tracking system that monitors space debris and watches for possible missile attacks.

6. Children’s author who turned 100 years old last week.

7. China’s most famous philosopher, he lived around 500 BC.

8. Denmark’s capital city

9. Board game invented in India 1500 years ago, in which the point is to capture your opponent’s king

10. Manassa is the seat of this Colorado county, named for an animal often seen there.(answers on Page Four)

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By Tyler Vanourek,13, a CK Reporter from Littleton

This is the 7th book in the series, which is printed using a special font called Dyslexie that is made to help

people who have dyslexia. ... I have dyslexia, and it makes it harder for me to read ... I actually did find that

font made it easier for me to read this book.

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Chapter Five: Conservation and Preservation

Part of figuring out what a National Park should be, and how America should treat all its wild places and its natural resources, required figuring out both conservation and preservation.

They are not the same thing.“Conservation” means using

natural resources wisely. “Preservation” means leaving

nature just as it is.It didn’t have to be one or the

other, but America had to decide how much of each it wanted, and which was more important.

For President Roosevelt, “conservation” was the very most important. The country was growing, and needed farms to feed people, and timber, metal and coal to build and fuel the nation.

“Conservation” meant making wise decisions about how to use our natural resources to get those things.

“I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the nature resources of our land;” he said in a speech, “but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

A farmer would be a poor father if he ruined the farmland he should one day pass on to his children, the President said. The nation must also take good care of its natural resources and, like the farmer, make a living, but also make good choices for the future.

And the government should help, for the good of the entire nation. That might mean building a dam so that the water from melting snow would not run straight from the mountains to the ocean each spring.

With a dam, there could be water all year long for farmers’ crops and so that growing cities would have drinking water. A conservationist would try to place that dam where it would do the least harm, but that might still mean flooding a beautiful canyon, which would make preservationists angry.

Conserving water also meant not carelessly cutting trees, because cutting down too many trees caused erosion, and it also harmed the water supply.

Forests held water in their thick, deep soil, not just for the plants and animals there, but, as it slowly trickled through the soil, into creeks and then into rivers, for everyone further downhill.

A preservationist would want to leave the forest just as it was, and would be upset with any cutting.

A conservationist, however, would want people to have lumber to build with and so there could be paper for books, magazines and newspapers. A conservationist would want to be careful how many trees were cut, and how they were removed, so the forest would not be damaged more than was necessary.

However, when it came to foolish, wasteful use of natural resources, the conservationists and preservationists stood together.

In fact, just a month before he traveled with his fellow birdwatcher, John Burroughs, to Yellowstone, President Roosevelt had made one of the biggest moves ever for preservation.

In the late 1800’s, elegant plumes became very popular for women’s hats. The hats were beautiful, but the plumes came from egrets and other birds, and the more popular the hats became, the more birds were killed.

Soon, bird lovers became extremely upset and some even formed a club, with the support and approval of Theodore Roosevelt, to help protect the birds. They named their club after the famous painter of birds, John J. Audubon, and the Audubon Society began to campaign for laws to protect the beautiful egrets and other plumed birds.

One of the places where plume hunters were killing birds was on Pelican Island in Florida, and a group of bird lovers came to visit Roosevelt at the White House. They wanted more protection for the island’s birds, but worried that it would take too long to pass a law, and that some in Congress would object to the idea.

Roosevelt listened carefully, then turned to one of his advisors.““Is there any law that will prevent me from declaring Pelican Island a Federal Bird

Reservation?” he asked. The island was already owned by the government, so the advisor answered that there was nothing standing in Roosevelt’s way.

“Very well then,” Roosevelt said, “I so declare it!” Pelican Island became the nation’s first national wildlife refuge. Later, Roosevelt would “so

declare it” 50 more times to protect birds with national refuges.Roosevelt was also interested in preserving places like Mesa Verde in Colorado, where

ancient dwellings were being damaged by souvenir hunters and those who wanted to take away the pottery and other artifacts to sell.

He worried, too, about the Grand Canyon, where greedy companies were building hotels right on the edge of the canyon, ruining the natural views, and others even talked about digging mines.

After the trip to Yellowstone, Roosevelt would let John Burroughs go back to New York, but he would travel on. He went to see the Grand Canyon, and also visited John Muir in California’s Yosemite Valley, which was a state park at the time.

Muir was a preservationist and he often disagreed strongly with Roosevelt, the conservationist. But they spent three pleasant days camping and the president once more made sure they went nearly alone, without reporters and others, so they could enjoy the quiet of nature.

Later, he would help make Yosemite and Grand Canyon national parks, as well as pass the Antiquities Act, which helped to preserve Mesa Verde and several other important historic and scientific areas.

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