Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2019 i Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

“Lena at Lost Lake” oil paints Lori grew up in the country near a pond the size of a lake, where she saw all the animals in her painting on the cover, and lots more. In summers, one of her chores was to spend a whole day in the pond picking up pond weeds and seaweeds, which gave her the opportunity to see even more creepy crawlers. Lori lives in Michigan with her husband and son. Their grown daughter lives by the Pacific Ocean close to the beach, where Lori loves to paint while listening to the waves. Always, Lori wishes for everyone to express their creative gifts—in music, art, dance, or whatever—as this makes our world a better place. Is it time to renew? shop.cricketmedia.com 1-800-821-0115…

Dear Cricket, I like the way everybody says “Hey, every-buggy,” but I think I just want to say “Howdy!” I started reading Cricket about a year ago, so I’m still just a bit of a beginner and I don’t know Ladybug, Cricket, or all of the other bugs in the group. I really want to know them and have a favorite! I really like your stories and want to be an author. I am already writing a book. I also want to be a singer and I have been told that I have a pretty voice. I love dogs and have a lot of pets: a dog, seven chickens (who are my best friends!), three fish, and two frogs. I also have four brothers. I’m the second oldest and have…

IN THE EERIE glow of a foggy morning, just before dawn on June 6, 1944, thirty American soldiers stood huddled together in a rectangular plywood boat. Cold spray splashed the men’s faces as the small craft, which had no roof and looked a bit like an open shoebox, rolled up and down in the choppy waters of the English Channel. The men had just eaten breakfast and many began to feel seasick. Others hunkered down under their netted metal helmets, trying to keep calm as they waited for first light to accomplish their mission. The number painted on the side of the boat was PA26-24. That meant it was twenty-fourth of the small landing crafts lowered into the water that morning by the USS Samuel Chase (APA26), a huge attack…

A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban This is an adorably amazing book about an eleven-year-old girl who dreams of being a piano prodigy, but instead has an old organ on which she plays hits from the sixties, seventies, and nineties. She deals with an overly anxious dad, a workaholic mom, and regular school drama as she prepares for an organ competition. It’s one of those books that is literally for every age group, and I thought it was unbearably sweet and funny. Alta Blab About Books, Chatterbox Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Did you grow up on a farm? If you did, you might relate to this. Every day Jess Arons has to wake up and feed Miss Bessie the cow. He wakes up even earlier because…

LINDA RICHARDS WAS the first graduate of an American nursing school. After receiving her degree in 1873, she went to work at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Katherine Kelly told us an interesting story about her. As night superintendent at the Bellevue Training School for Nurses, Linda Richards had to ask the day nurses for reports on the condition of her one hundred patients. “You are so full of questions!” cried a day nurse in exasperation. “I could fill a penny notebook trying to answer them all!” Linda was full of questions. She’d graduated a year before, and there was still so much she didn’t know. That night she thought of what the day nurse had said. Penny notebooks! Well, why not? At her first opportunity, she tied notebooks…

My dad believed in responsibility! Independence! New experiences! I have to admit the examples from his youth fascinated me. He specialized in his adventures growing up in Omaha in the early 1900s. His brothers threw him into Carter Lake to teach him to swim. His family kept a cow named Lily Whiteflower whom he, age four, led into the church at Christmas to give Baby Jesus milk in the Nativity display. He practiced baseball with his older brother, who eventually pitched as “Smokin’ Paul” in a minor league. On and on! He used those stories to urge us children to fresh achievements. Of course my sister Martha could make a skating rink on an empty neighborhood lot. Yes, brother Ted could enter the newspaper’s Mother’s Day poetry contest and win.…

First prize 10 and under Ben Brown, age 9 Silver Spring, MD Past the Future First prize 10 and under Lilya Blue, age 10 Lee’s Summit, MO The Plaza First prize 11 and up Emma Johnson, age 11 Statesville, NC Second prize 10 and under Zechine Altwicker, age 10 New York, NY Second prize 11 and up Camille Zenk, age 12 Prairie Village, KS 2042 Third prize 10 and under Juliet Ashley, age 10 Culver City, CA Architect’s Daydream Third prize 10 and under Julianne Han, age 8 Arcadia, CA Third prize 10 and under Makenzie Martin, age 10 Corning, CA It’s Raining Buildings . . . on a Building?! Third prize 10 and under Jack Ridgeway, age 9 Rocky River, OH Third prize 11 and up Samantha Brough, age…