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CK Reporter of the WeekClarise Reichley, Denver

“Sully,” directed by Clint Eastwood, tells the story of the pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger after he landed a commercial plane on the Hudson River.

On January 15, 2009 the fl ight took off from LaGuardia airport in New York and soon ran into a fl ock of birds. The birds caused dual engine failure and Sully was forced to make an emergency landing on the Hudson.

The movie isn’t focused on the actual fl ight itself, but instead on the aftermath of the fl ight, and how Sully handles his instant fame and the reaction by the press.

After the landing, Sully is traumatized and keeps having fl ashbacks of the fl ight and what could have gone wrong.

The scenes of the water landing and rescue aren’t too long, but are intense. The sound and visual eff ects are stunning and I found myself immersed in the movie.

Tom Hanks, as Sullenberger, alongside Aaron Eckhart, who played fi rst offi cer Jeff Skiles, perform brilliantly together and are a witty duo on screen.

While “Sully” is a solid fi lm, there are defi nitely some things that could have been improved.

In particular, there are two fl ashbacks that reveal parts of Sully’s past that aren’t incorporated very well.

They are meant to show that Sully was an experienced and skilled pilot, but they left me confused about his past rather than clearing things up.

One of those sequences is a fl ashback in which Sully is piloting a fi ghter jet, something goes wrong with the engine, and he makes a very skilled landing.

While relevant, the scene felt awkwardly placed and took away from the fl ow of the movie.

“Sully” is a terrifi c movie that has a good balance between action and drama. The fi lming was done well and the photography isn’t all over the place so you know what’s happening. The sound design was relatively well done, with the exception of only a couple moments in the fi lm.

The special eff ects were realistic and kept me immersed in the movie.

However, the fi lm is rated as PG-13 and for a good reason. There are some very tense situations and minor language occasionally, so if you don’t like those things you may not like this movie a lot.

If you are fi ne with tension and language then this movie is very good even if you are not into aviation or disaster-type movies.

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Culture and history meet in inspiring novel“Esperanza Rising,” by Pam Muñoz Ryan, is an enjoyable,

inspiring book for all ages, but particularly those between ages 11-13, and features the Hispanic heritage of Mexico

during the early 1900’s. Esperanza is a young girl with a very rich and vivid lifestyle and her

life is absolutely perfect. Then disaster strikes and Esperanza has to move away from the

only house and people she has ever known and is off to a long journey all the way to California during the Great Depression (so you also get a smidgin of history while reading this book).

Esperanza has trouble adjusting to her new life, and has many mistakes and confl icts with others, and even with herself in California, but will she lose hope and just give up on things ever getting better when things just keep getting worse?

At the beginning there is a small bit of violence but after that everything seems to be kid-friendly.

I personally enjoyed it because it is very diff erent from other books

in its genre. That must be why this book has not earned not one but

many awards including the “Pura Belpre” award, which is given to Latina and Latino authors whose work for children best portrays Latino cultural experience.

So if you like books that are unique and make you want to keep reading and always leaves you thinking about what is going to happen next, this is the book for you!

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‘Sully’ tells tense, exciting story

By Abigale Morris,12, a CK Reporter from Aurora

By Parker Secrest,13, a CK Reporter from Denver

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Juno probe skims over Jupiter’s poles to collect dataFive years after it left Earth,

NASA’s Juno probe has reached Jupiter and gone into an orbit that might surprise you.

While we think of satellites go-ing around the center of a planet as if following Earth’s equator, Juno orbits Jupiter pole-to-pole.

And it’s good that the probe is named for Jupiter’s wife, because it is getting much more up close and personal than usual, too.

Juno went from one pole to

the other in six hours, at a height of 2,500 miles above the planet’s surface.

That sounds like quite a dis-tance, but most of the artificial satellites orbiting the Earth are about nine times farther from it surface, and Earth is considerably smaller than Jupiter.

As for speed, that six-hour trip from pole to pole happens at a speed that could take the Juno probe from Earth to the Moon in

less than two hours.Juno has a variety of sensors on

board that are sending back data and images which have NASA scientists excited over informa-tion they had not expected about our solar systems largest planet, and they expect to learn a great deal before Juno’s mission ends in February, 2018.

The Juno probe was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Denver. illustration/ NASA/JPL-Caltech

Face is a vocal rock band with five performers. They are an “a capella” group, which means they make

all the noises in their songs with their mouths, like beatboxing only better.

The only tools used to help them sound better are microphones and speakers. There are no musical instruments played during their songs.

Face is based in Boulder but is internationally known.

Last year, they went on a European tour through many European countries like Sweden and England.

One of their most famous songs is “How Was the Show Last Night,” which they wrote themselves.

The group loves kids -- they even go to Denver-area schools and perform for free for fundraisers to benefit the music departments of the schools.

Last year they performed at 16 schools and helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for those school music programs!

Mark Megibow is the vocal percussionist (drummer). He told me that he loves the spotlight and has been on stage since he was only 6 years old.

His favorite place to perform is in Denver. Before playing vocal percussion for Face, he played the real drums and says it is easy for him to switch from real drums to vocal drums.

Megibow was one of the two original Face players in 2001. The other three members joined about 3 years later.

Face can perform many, many songs. They even sing the Pink Panther theme, which is a fully instrumental song, so you have an a capella band, Face, playing a fully instrumental song. Fun!

There are currently five Face performers: Mark Megibow, Cody Qualls, Forest Kelly, Ryan Driver, and Stephen Ross.

Cody Qualls sings tenor and, in his spare time, directs a singing studio.

Forest thumps bass. Ryan also performs tenor. Stephen comes in with the ear-buster high notes as countertenor.

You can find more details and upcoming Face concert dates on their website at www.facevocalband.com. Face is a fun, impressive singing group, and I recommend that you attend one of their upcoming local concerts.

‘Face’ the music without music!

screen grab from video at http://www.facevocalband.com/

By Jack Vanourek,11, a CK Reporter from Littleton

Although it seems from the advertisements and cartoons about back-to-school time that kids hate to see the summer end, our readers made one thing

clear: Going back to school puts you back in touch with most of your friends.

Two-thirds of the kids who answered our question said they make most of their friendships at school.

Here’s what we asked you, and what you told us:

Where do you find your friendships?

A. Most of my good friends live in my neighborhood. 11%B. Most of my good friends are people I know from

school. 67%

C. Most of my good friends are people I do activities with. 6%

D. My good friends are a complete mix of people. 17%

Now here’s our next question:How do you feel about graphic novels versus regular

novels?A. I prefer regular novels.B. I prefer graphic novels.C. Why choose? I like them both.

To answer this question, go to http://nextgen.yourhub.com

We asked you, you told us: Back to school means back to friends

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At Colorado Kids, we tell you about the newest books for young readers, but

we’re going to change that now and tell you about some of the oldest.

The University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature has a collection of more than 6,000 children’s books from the 1800s.

The collection includes several editions of classic stories like Alice in Wonderland or Robinson Crusoe, and popular books by authors like Jules Verne.

Those books are still around, but here you can see them as young readers saw them when they were new.

Others, like “The Three Little Kittens,” are for very small children, and taught lessons:

The kittens in the story learn that they must take care of their mittens, and so the story is about responsibility.

If you’d rather simply enjoy an adventure, choose adventure books that were intended for young readers to curl up with in a chair and imagine that they were out to sea with Admiral Nelson or exploring new lands.

A warning: Times have changed in the past 125 years, and these books were published for American and English children in an era when minorities and people from the Third World were not respected. Part of history is learning how attitudes have changed, and there are upsetting things in some of these books. But others are pure fun: Catch the live link at ColoradoNIE.com!

Now you can read the books kids read more than a century ago

Ever since the settlement of the West began, people have quarreled over water, and the latest of these arguments is erupt-

ing in an area where the settlement of the West has sparked problems for more than 200 years.

The Lakota people -- also known as the Sioux -- were fi rst contacted in the days of Lewis and Clark, and the tribes within that nation had good and bad relations with the United States government ever since, including wars in which many people died.

A new confl ict is now taking place at Standing Rock, a reservation belonging to the Hunkpapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota people and lo-cated in parts of North and South Dakota.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has been op-posed to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a pipeline being built to transport crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois.

Although the pipeline does not cross the Standing Rock Reservation itself, it will go under the Missouri River just above the reservation.

The tribe has argued that, because the Mis-souri is their only water source, it is too great a risk to build a pipeline where a leak could con-taminate the water supply for the entire 3,600 square mile reservation and the more than 8,000 people who live there.

The tribe has fi led a lawsuit, saying that the project should have required greater research

and more consultation to insure that their water would be safe.

They asked the federal courts to stop pipeline construction until the dispute had been exam-ined and properly settled. On Friday, a US judge refused that request, but later that day, the federal government announced a halt to work in the area until there was a better chance to examine the situation.

Water is not the only issue that has made the Lakota and their supporters oppose the project.

Already, bulldozers have gone through land near Standing Rock that the tribe considers sacred, including burial grounds.

Protesters from around the United States and Canada have begun to gather at Standing Rock to protest the pipeline, and, while the protests have been mostly peaceful, there was an inci-dent last week in which protesters were bitten by guard dogs.

The confl ict over the Dakota Access Pipeline has become about more than water, or even the sacred lands the Standing Rock tribe wants to protect from construction.

For many Indian people and their support-ers, it has become a symbol of how, years after treaties were signed to end the wars in the West, confl icts continue between Indian nations and the United States government.

Oil pipeline sparks protest at Standing Rock

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 date in 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote “The Defense of Fort McHenry” after watching the unsuccessful attack by British troops on Baltimore. Later, his poem was set to music, so our answers this week will begin with “S.”

1. Key’s poem is better know by this name, the name of the song it became.

2. This Chaff ee County city takes its name from the Spanish word for “Exit.”

3. This fi sh, a relative of the trout, is known for returning from the ocean to the fresh-water stream in which it was hatched, leaping up waterfalls on its way.

4. Middle Eastern nation currently torn by a bitter civil war

5. Author and illustrator of children’s picture books in the Busytown series, starring Lowly Worm and other animals

6. Fluff y white dog that once pulled sleds and helped herd reindeer in Siberia

7. This NFL team has many fans in Alaska, because its home city is closest to them.

8. The vegetable that gives Popeye the Sailor his strength

9. The liquid in a maple tree that is boiled to make maple syrup

10. The weapon with which David slew Goliath(answers on Page Four)

Above, supporters from throughout the country, many representing Indian nations, gather at Stand-ing Rock to protest the pipeline. (AP Photo/Tom Stromme/

The Bismarck Tribune) At right, the path of the proposed pipeline. (Energy Transfer LLC, via Iowa Utilities Board)

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“Sea Monster Surprise” by Geronimo Stilton is the 11th book in the “Cavemice” series by Scholastic.

The story takes place in Old Mouse City back in the time of the Stone Age (before math even existed!).

The main characters are all cavemice -- Geronimo Stilton’s ancestor, Geronimo Stiltonoot, Trap (his cousin), Thea (his sister), Benjamin (his nephew), and Grandma Ratrock.

If you haven’t read about Geronimo Stilton before, you should know that he is always in loads of trouble and that his cousin Trap always loves to play pranks.

Grandma Ratrock kicks things off by pushing Geronimo into a new adventure in this story that takes place on sea and on islands.

Thea comes along for the ride, Benjamin is an encour-ager to Geronimo and supports Geronimo by also accom-panying him on this voyage.

Trap, of course, is always around to keep things inter-esting.

This action story involves mouse pirates and huge sea monsters. The mouse pirates live on a special island. I’ll let you find out if the sea monsters and mouse pirates are good or evil in this story.

Compared to previous books in the series, this one is

pretty consistent. I have read other books in the series, and I enjoyed this book and would rate as an 8.5 on a scale of 1-10 because it is funny, interesting, and creative.

I also loved the way the writing really brings out your happy and sad emotions.

It is a hybrid book, meaning that the fantasy story is told in both text and pictures. The length could have been expanded, but it was still a great book and the pictures really help interpret the story.

I recommend this book for ages 5-12 because it is very easy to understand and simple to read.

You may also want to consider other series beyond the Cavemice, for example the Spacemice series, the Micek-ings series, and of course the original Geronimo Stilton series (which has over 60 books). Throughout these series, you are certain to fall in love with Geronimo and his pals.

You can also check out www.geronimostilton.com for more details.

Travel back in time for humor and action

By Ben Vanourek,11, a CK Reporter from Littleton

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Why The Blackfeet Never Kill The Mouse-People

These stories were collected from Blackfeet, Chippewa and Cree storytellers in Montana in the early 20th century by Frank Linderman.

It happened long, long ago, when there were few men and women on the world.

Old Man was chief of all then, and the animal-people and the bird-people were greater than our people, because we had not been on earth long and were not wise.

There was much quarreling among the animals and the birds.

You see, the Bear wanted to be chief, under Old Man, and so did the Beaver.

Almost every night they would have a council and quarrel over it.

Beside the Bear and Beaver, there were other animals, and also birds, that thought they had the right to be chief.

They couldn’t agree and the quarreling grew worse as time went on.

Some said the greatest thief should be chosen. Others thought the wisest one should be the

leader; while some said the swiftest traveller was the one they wanted.

So it went on and on until they were most all enemies instead of friends, and you could hear them quarreling almost every night, until Old Man came along that way.

He heard about the trouble. I forget who told him, but I think it was the Rabbit. Anyhow he visited the council where the quarreling was going on and listened to what

each one had to say. It took until almost daylight, too. He listened to it all -- every bit. When they had finished talking and the quarreling commenced as usual, he said, “Stop!”

and they did stop.Then he said to them: “I will settle this thing right here and right now, so that there will be

no more rows over it, forever.”He opened his paint sack and took from it a small, polished bone. This he held up in the firelight, so that they might all see it, and he said: “This will settle

the quarrel. You all see this bone in my right hand, don’t you?”“Yes,” they replied.“Well, now you watch the bone and my hands, too, for they are quick and cunning.”Old Man began to sing the gambling song and to slip the bone from one hand to the

other so rapidly and smoothly that they were all puzzled. Finally he stopped singing and held out his hands -- both shut tight, and both with their

backs up.“Which of my hands holds the bone now?” he asked them.Some said it was in the right hand and others claimed that it was the left hand that held

it. Old Man asked the Bear to name the hand that held the bone, and the Bear did, but when Old Man opened that hand it was empty -- the bone was not there.

Then everybody laughed at the Bear. Old Man smiled a little and began to sing and again pass the bone.“Beaver, you are smart; name the hand that holds the bone this time.”The Beaver said: “It’s in your right hand. I saw you put it there.”Old Man opened that hand right before the Beaver’s eyes, but the bone wasn’t there, and

again everybody laughed -- especially the Bear.“Now, you see,” said Old Man, “that this is not so easy as it looks, but I am going to teach

you all to play the game; and when you have all learned it, you must play it until you find out who is the cleverest at the playing. Whoever that is, he shall be chief under me, forever.”

Some were awkward and said they didn’t care much who was chief, but most all of them learned to play pretty well.

First the Bear and the Beaver tried it, but the Beaver beat the Bear easily and held the bone for ever so long.

Finally the Buffalo beat the Beaver and started to play with the Mouse.Of course the Mouse had small hands and was quicker than the Buffalo -- quicker to see

the bone. The Buffalo tried hard for he didn’t want the Mouse to be chief but it didn’t do him any

good, for the Mouse won in the end.It was a fair game and the Mouse was chief under the agreement. He looked quite small among the rest but he walked right out to the center of the council

and said: “Listen, brothers --what is mine to keep is mine to give away. I am too small to be your chief and I know it. I am not warlike. I want to live in peace with my wife and family. I know nothing of war. I get my living easily. I don’t like to have enemies. I am going to give my right to be chief to the man that Old Man has made like himself.”

That settled it. That made the man chief forever, and that is why he is greater than the animals and the

birds. That is why we never kill the Mice-people.You have seen the Mice run into the buffalo skull, of course. There is where they have lived and brought up their families ever since the night the

Mouse beat the Buffalo playing the bone game. Yes, the Mice-people always make their nests in the heads of the dead Buffalo-people,

ever since that night.

adaptation c. 2005, Mike Peterson - illustrations c. 2005, Christopher Baldwin

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