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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2016 H3 LATIMES.COMKIDS THE KIDS' READING ROOM os Angeles (Times Kids The Original Crossword Puzzle for Kids and Their Favorite Adults'' The across clues are for kids and the down clues are for grown-ups! Kids Across 1. Lunch on a bun: When onions get Fun with Onions By Jan Buckner Walker chopped, some end up on top of the people eat at picnics (2 wds) 4. Every onion has layers of very thin which you can peel off one at a time 6. An onion is called a bulb 2 TB 5 Vl hi tai kH because of its rounded shape 8. It's a "round" rhyme time: Though slicing an onion can make a cook cry, to fry onion he must give it a try 1 0.

Most onions are this color on the inside 1 2. Onionskin paper is so thin that if you your name backward on it and hold it up to the light, you can read it from the other side 13. It's the body part you might want to pinch shut if someone is slicing an onion nearby 14. Peeling an onion could bring tears to your What an onion lives in until some- 15 one pulls them out of it A is a small, red, root plant 2016 KAPD, LLC KAPDebooksnowavailableonwww.kapd.com Comments? Contact kriskapd.com 22116 KIDS1 BOOK REVIEWS "Because of Mr. Terupt" Rob Buyea Everyone in Mr.

Terupt's class is super-different in a special way. Mr. Terupt relates to every student personally. My favorite character is Danielle. Even though everyone teases her, she stands up for herself and her friends.

It is so interesting because all of the characters change at the end. Everything is going well until something happens that changes everything. Reviewed by Olivia, 5th grade Sequoyah School, Pasadena "The Book With No Pictures" B. J. Novak This is an outrageous book for kids, but it has no pictures.

It uses hilarious phrases like and my head is made of blueberry pizza" and silly sounds like "Brroooooo," and "Aieee." I love the author's humor. Reviewed by Lincoln, 7 Community Magnet, Los Angeles "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" Jules Verne Professor Aronnax sails aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to spot a monster and claim a reward of $2,000. There is a submarine called Nautilus with mad and mysterious Capt. Nemo. Find out about their adventures fighting incredible sea creatures, battleships and visiting the lost city of Atlantis.

Reviewed by Jun, 10 Clover Elementary, Los Angeles "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) C. S. Lewis Four children Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter live in the countryside. While playing hide-and-seek one day, Lucy, the youngest, finds an empty room with only a wardrobe (a large tall cabinet) She goes inside to hide herself from the others and finds herself in a magical world called Narnia. The children become entitled to become the future rulers.

Will they defeat the White Witch even after Edmund betrays them? Reviewed by Victoria, 11 Clara J. King Elementary, Cypress "Secret Agent on Flight 101" (The Hardy Boys 46) Franklin W. Dixon Joe and Frank Hardy are following in the footsteps of their famous detective dad. The boys attend a magic show with him and meet Hexton, the magician. Hexton winds up capturing their father and holding him hostage.

Overall, this is a suspenseful and interesting story. If you like mystery books, you will love this book. The Hardy Boys series is great, and I recommend the other books, too. Reviewed by Jesse, 10 Third Street Elementary Los Angeles 18. Named for its color, the onion reveals its true stripes when sliced Today's Solution which can be sliced and tossed in a salad 19.

Placed some onion seeds in the ground last fall 20. What a cook uses his giant spoon to do when she's cooking onion 1 5D Parents Down 1. Ail-American sandwich, often topped by onions 2. Chop an onion to put in salsa (or two cubes in the hand of a Monopoly player) 3. Make it sizzle in butter or olive oil 4.

Sold in banded bundles, are spring onions whose sprouts make them look like tall grass 5. Prized paper: What a calligrapher carefully lets flow on to a precious sheet of onionskin 7. Rising agent in onion bread VI 1 1 qMBoI cousin which lends its flavor to spaghetti sauce 1 1 One more onion cousin: A bulb vegetable with large, thick sprouts, it sounds like what a bucket will do if there's a hole in the bottom 15. For starters: French onion is known for the canopy of melted cheese that lavishly covers its bowl 16. It's a small solution that can help prevent you from reminding yourself and others of the onions you ate for dinner 1 7.

Here's a tip for dry eyes: an onion under running water to inn ISOlN 1 Onion bulbous and aromatic 1 9. SLYLOCK FOX and COMICS FOR KIDS By Bob Weber Jr. Spot six differences between these panels. hps 1 1 Rachel Rabbit says Count Weirdly sneaked into her kitchen and stole a vegetable juicer ten minutes ago. Weirdly insists he's innocent and claims he just returned to the present after watching a prehistoric battle between a Tyran-nosaurus rex and a Stego-saurus.

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