Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2024 i Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

Solution on page 47 Across 3. Typical summer weather5. To make money, get a summer _______7. Airplane operator9. To tell a joke, you need a good sense of _______10. Mountain trail11. Unused12. Place for fishing or rowing15. Short for evening16. Follows orders19. Surface of a skating rink20. Travel experience23. You can _______ late during vacation24. Kind of boom25. _______ Vegas, Nevada26. Cub Scout unit Down 1. Kind of bear2. Four-base hit in baseball3. _______ , hip, hooray!4. Small child5. Vacation month6. _______ and arrow8. Number of summer months13. Poison _______ (vacation nuisance)14. Sleeveless garments16. View from the beach17. Summer honey makers18. Evergreen mountain trees19. Sick21. Fishing equipment22. One of ten in a bowling game…

THERE WAS NO reason to hurry back to the yard. In some ways, I didn’t care if we never made it back because nothing would be the same as it had been only ten minutes before. I wondered how the sun could be shining and the birds singing again, as if this were any normal morning in May. I won’t ever forget what just happened—how the Missouri sun burned hard and yellow, how the heat made the air almost too thick to breathe and . . . well, here’s the whole story. I WAS IN the kitchen this morning when Mom came in. I said, “Can you take me to the pool?” “You said you’d watch the kids for me, Jess.” She slipped on her shoes and grabbed her purse.…

ANYONE FOR SPHAIRISTIKE? That’s what the ancient Greeks called one of today’s most exciting and popular sports: tennis. They didn’t have rackets or nets in those early days. Players simply swatted a ball, bare-handed, back and forth across an earthen embankment. In fifteenth-century France, some clever person—probably tired of getting blistered hands—invented a paddle and strung a rope net across the field. The game moved indoors, the European nobility soon caught tennis fever, and kings and queens left their royal courts to amuse themselves on courts of another kind. In 1873, a British army officer, Major Walter Wingfield, improved the game and equipment and brought it outdoors again to the green lawns of England. The game has since grown in fascination for amateurs and professionals, players and spectators the world…

Hi, Everybuggy! This is my first letter! I love your magazines! I read a lot and I also like to write about magical creatures. Old Cricket, what’s your favorite magical creature? Mine is a dragon. My favorite books are Dragon Rider and The Lord of the Rings series. Lucy Whitt Black Mountain, North Carolina P.S. Ladybug, you are so funny! Lucy, I can’t name one favorite magical creature. I love unicorns, dragons, elves, pixies, and fairies. But my list could go on and on. Love, Old Cricket Hi, Everybuggy! Happy summer! What is everybuggy doing over the summer? This is my first time writing to Letterbox. I have been getting Cricket mag for two years now and I loooove it! My favorite buggy is Pussywillow. Pussywillow, you are sooo cute!…

“YOU’RE SENDING ME where?” Loxie wailed. Her parents exchanged a glance. “Fear Camp, sweetie,” her mother said. “To help you deal with the, er, aftermath of the Bear Incident.” “You mean the bad dreams?” Loxie said. “Lots of kids have bad dreams.” “Nightmares, dear. Yes, other kids have them, but you have them every night. And then, there’s your . . . phobia.” “Lots of kids give up their teddy bears at my age!” Loxie said indignantly. “But not because they’re afraid of them,” her father said. “Fear Camp is just what you need. It will help you work through what happened.” “Work through it? I don’t even want to think about it.” “Well, it’s either camp or spend the summer here,” her mother said firmly. “I hear the neighbors have…

Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd This book is a truly captivating, wonderfully written read about the day when magic enters Susan Shaw’s life and gives her a chance to find wonder and happiness, as well as new friends. Through helping them with the challenges facing them, she finds a way to solve her own difficult life—if she can only convince her father to let her. I fully recommend it. Amethyst, many years old cricketmagkids.com/books Odder Space by Matthew David Brozik In a black void, a single light can be seen . . . shining on the novel Odder Space, with me reading it—again. All right, we’re not actually in space, but Jeremy “Jerm” Jarden is, aboard the starship Amity, investigating a peculiar pulsar. Along with Jerm, you’ll encounter…

Gillian Crenshaw is in love with acting. She’s even studied method acting, techniques for developing deeply emotional, intense roles, created by the great director Stanislavski. When Gillian tries out for the school play, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, she is confident she will get one of the best parts. But Mr. Ellison, the director, doesn’t cast her. Instead he encourages her to join the stage crew. The middle child in a large family, Gillian often feels that her parents pay more attention to her academically gifted older sister, Diana, her couple of older brothers, Winston and Alden, and her younger brother, Dex, who has cerebral palsy and requires special care. When her family appears interested in her part in the play, however, Gillian pretends that she has a role onstage. Only…

WINNERS MARCH 2024 ART CONTEST Dragons First prize 10 and under Olivia Bonney, age 9Leander, TX First prize 10 and under Shyra C., age 7San Francisco, CA Rani the Dragon First prize 11 and up Benjamin Kwack, age 12Lisle, IL Dragons Posing First prize 11 and up Haley Velin, age 14Anaconda, MT Second prize 10 and under Dora Zong, age 10London, Ontario, Canada Second prize 11 and up Jaslene Kwack, age 14Lisle, IL Fog Second prize 11 and up Ella M., age 13Lynchburg, VA Come Through and Journey Third prize 10 and under Oona Farren, age 10Jersey City, NJ Third prize 10 and under Rowan Bromage, age 9Branford, CT Third prize 11 and up Anna Svatora, age 14Newark, OH Third prize 11 and up Simon Paradise-Kadlec, age 12Los Angeles, CA…