For: Girls, ages 5 to 12, who love to puzzle

Issue 33 Highlights: Supercharge your brain with 50+ fun puzzles and riddles for hours' worth of screen-free fun; learn a psych-up mind trick from chess Grandmaster Irina Krush; play word games with crossword constructor Anna Shechtman, author of Riddles of the Sphinx; find out how curiosity activates your brain from neuroscientist Jacqueline Gottlieb, Ph.D.; see just how smart octopuses really are on a dive with marine biologist Chelsea Bennice, Ph.D.; read a comic about a WW2 codebreaker by 2x Eisner Award winner Rosemary Valero-O'Connell; color-by-dot a modern masterpiece by artist Marlene Bennett Jones; twist your own salty, chewy soft pretzels with pretzel maker Emma Smales of Smales Pretzel Bakery; find out how you can puzzle for life from paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson, Ph.D. and mathematician Maggie Miller, Ph.D.; connect the dots (with your body) with rock climber Kathy Karlo, host of "For the Love of Climbing" podcast; and read a short story about a girl who unlocks a mystery message at an amusement park. Plus! A secret code, a word search, a search-and-find, a free tear-out poster, and more! 

Issue 33 Short Story Contributor: Kate Milford, author of the Greenglass House series, winner of the Edgar Award, and finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature 

Cover Art: Jennie Utschig