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What is black, white, read all over ... and 12 feet tall? It's Newspaper House! That is a house made out of about 120,000 sheets of newspaper. An artist named Sumer Erek created the structure, or building, in London, England. England is a country in Europe. Erek built Newspaper House to remind people to recycle. Recycling is putting items through a special process so parts of the items can be used again. In the United States, people use more than 100 million tons of paper a year. About half of that amount is recycled to make new paper.

To create Newspaper House, Erek built a wooden frame. Then he invited people from across London to donate, or give, their old newspapers to his project. "Even things that don't have value can be ... something beautiful," Erek told reporters.

Attention, poets! Weekly Reader is holding its fifth annual poetry contest. The theme of this year's contest is the environment. Your teacher has information about how to enter.