May/June 2022

Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

The Realm of Imagination

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Cover And Border
“Whale of a Day” digital (Procreate) Born in Taiwan and raised in Yamaguchi, Japan, illustrator Jui Ishida studied art at Art Center College of Design in California. The winner of several awards in both illustration and graphic design, Jui has als
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Cricket
Lonnie Plecha Editor Anna Lender Art Director Patrick Murray Designer Carolyn Digby Conahan Staff Artist Deborah Vetter Senior Contributing Editor Julie Peterson Copyeditor Emily Cambias Assistant Editor Hayley Kim Assistant Editor Adrienne M
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The Letterbox
My Dear Dreamers of Other Worlds, I felt the need to write a shout-out to the many splenderific people frequenting this delightful publication in the November/December 2021 issue. Cora, thank you for the fact about pangolins! Did you know that snails
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Quiet Nighr
the May moon is a cool neon glow sitting alone in the rhubarb patch I see shadows of hackberry trees curled spinach leaves and winter onions I bend, ear to the ground, and listen night crawlers are eating holes in the dirt ■
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Mo Of The Mudflat
SALMA PICKED HER way along the shore, holding her nose against its rotten-egg smell. Her flip-flops made a loud squelching sound. As her foot slid on slimy green goo, she flailed her arms to steady herself, but landed with a splat. With a groan, Sal
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The Wind In His Mustache
What was t hat yellow two-wheeled contraption flying down the streets of Oakland, California, in 1895—scaring horses and making pedestrians dodge for safety? It was a new-fangled bicycle, also known as a “wheel.” Bicycles with chains had only been a
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Project Fu-go
EARLY IN THE evening of December 6, 1944, citizens of Thermopolis, Wyoming, spotted something unusual in the sky. They watched the “alien mechanism” drift for a moment. Suddenly, glowing red lights erupted from it. Seconds later there was a whistling
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What the Tornado Gave Us
OF ALL THAT I lost when we moved to America, my personality is what I missed most. Not lost in a forever kind of way, perhaps just misplaced, because after I had a friend, it began to show up again. In Mexico, I knew the language well enough to easil
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Storm Chaser
I’M SITTING IN the back of a Chevy van somewhere in Nebraska, staring at the meanest-looking weather I’ve ever seen. “See that, Emily?” Dad points as he speeds toward the greenish underbelly of a monster cloud. “That’s the laboratory for a tornado.”
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Driving
Droopy eyes in the backseat watching stars slide past in the night going home Mom snores in the front seat, my brother’s head leans silent against the window. Only Dad and I are awake to see how the night tastes how the trees blacken purple skies and
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Socks
Dea is convinced that her house is filled with gremlins that hide in the shadows behind the sofa, somehow avoiding the vacuum cleaner when her mom sweeps up the dust balls. Dea’s cat, Dreamboat, avoids the living room, and many things have gone missi
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Favorite First Sentences
“Guilt is a hunter.” SALT TO THE SEA by Ruta Sepetys submitted by Juniper S. of Rabun Gap, GA “It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.” MOR
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Trouble in Strange Places
Growing up in a small town has got to be different from growing up in the city, but I don’t know exactly how. I’ve never lived anywhere else but this small town, and I’m eleven years old. The rest of the family is fine with living in Luverne, Minneso
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Cricket Ceague
Eli Melin, age 10 Raeford, NC Gabriella M., age 11 Swampscott, MA Lottie Tischler, age 12 Seattle, WA Cyber Wing Tang Li, age 9 Palmetto Bay, FL Fenghuang Natalie Aldrich, age 14 Lehi, UT Hot Air Balloon Festival and Skiing Mercy Batt
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Old Cricket Says
YOU CAN’T SEE it, but you can feel it. You can’t touch it, but it can touch you. It can make you take off your sweater or put it on. It comes from nowhere; it goes everywhere. The wind. In ancient Greek mythology, Aeolus was king of the winds and k

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