Cricket Magazine for Kids - Cricket May-June 2024: Lies and Disguise
Cricket Magazine for Kids - Cricket May-June 2024: Lies and Disguise
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In this issue
Everyone has something to hide! A budding actor pretends she got the part. A talented tortoise conceals her true form. Aliens and ghosts long to be seen. Trolls help a princess trick a mean queen.
The Tale Of Paddy Ahern
THERE ONCE WAS a lad named Paddy Ahern who trod the green hills of Limerick, Ireland, offering to help farmers with their chores in return for food and lodging.
5 mins
The Pedestrians
EACH TIME HELGA Estby looked over her shoulder, the big cat was there. Crossing Wyoming’s Red Desert on foot, in the dust and heat of August 1896, was tough.
7 mins
The Magic Gifts
A Basque Folk Tale
8 mins
The Dragon's Scales
“THREE YEARS I'VE been waiting, when Torquil promised he’d return them in three days. I’m not waiting three more days to get back what’s mine!” The dragon punctuated his remarks with a smoky snort and a lashing tail.
6 mins
The Water Bucketre
A Chinese Folk Tale.
5 mins
Between The Pages
One rainy night, while alone in the castle library with her talking gargoyle, Marcus, Princess Audrey finds a book with the odd title Finding Angel. Meanwhile, in modern times, a girl named Angel is celebrating her thirteenth birthday.
8 mins
Swim Buddies
I LEAN OVER the side of the catamaran and peer into the crystal blue water. This is my last chance, I think.
9 mins
The Bushwhackers
I CAN’T ABIDE living one more day in this pigpen!” I groaned and rolled out of bed to pull on my dress.
8 mins
As American as Appleless Pie!
NOTHING IS MORE American than the humble apple pie. There’s even an old saying to prove it: “as American as apple pie.” So it may come as a surprise that many early settlers who forged the trails of our expanding nation were often without apples to make this most American of desserts. As pioneers headed west in pursuit of territory and gold, they had to leave many things behind, including apples. Not only did life on the trail make fresh fruit like apples hard to carry and keep, apple trees were native only to the east coast, which made finding apples in the West nearly impossible.
2 mins
The Man Who Built A Better Leg
THE CIVIL WAR was only a few weeks old when seven hundred and fifty Confederate recruits gathered in the fields around Philippi, Virginia. It was early June 1861, and as yet there had been no real battles. The men had eagerly volunteered, but most had no training as soldiers. Their only weapons were the ones they brought from home— old-fashioned flintlock muskets, cap and ball pistols, and a few shotguns.
5 mins
Adel Of Acadia
ADEL HERZBERG LIVED in a tiny seaside village called Peggy’s Cove in Acadia.
6 mins
Madam C. J. Walker
MADAM C. J. WALKER began her life as Sarah Breedlove. The fifth of six children, she was born on December 23, 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War.
6 mins
April Rose In Charge
One summer evening, when her mother is going to a town meeting and her sister is out babysitting, twelve-year-old April Rose is left to bring in the sheep from the upper pasture by herself.
8 mins
Savitri, Princess Of India
A Tale From the Mahabharata.
6 mins
The Mothers Of Mother's Day
HOW DOES YOUR family celebrate Mother’s Day? Do you bring Mom breakfast in bed?
4 mins
Two Destinies
Two Destinies
5 mins
Born To Fight
In the Middle of a moonlit night, a young mare gives birth to a foal in the stable of a medieval castle.
3 mins
Percy Plumb, Cowboy
PART TWOPercy Plumb has always wanted to be a cowboy like his great-uncle Radcliffe. He loves stories about the Old West and wranglers named Dusty and Smokey Joe. He daydreams about riding the range on a flashy pinto with one blue eye and one brown eye, or maybe a quick, coal-black mustang.Instead of a cowpoke, though, he’s a librarian in the town of Mayfair, which boasts a broad green park, a Main Street of shops and cafés, and one remaining farm: Treadwell’s Dairy with its pastures of spotted cows.One day Miss Peabody from the Humane Society posts a flier in the library. “WANTED: A Loving Home for Bob,” reads the poster. Percy peers at the photo of a horse who has gotten his face too close to the camera. His nose looks very large, and on that nose is a big white spot like a headlight. Percy’s thoughts begin to dwell less on books and more on Bob.Several weeks later Miss Peabody returns. No one has adopted the horse, and the Humane Society can’t afford to keep him any longer. “But what will happen to Bob?” Percy asks. Miss Peabody hesitates. “I’d rather not say,” she admits. To his surprise, Percy blurts out that he has a shed and a meadow behind his bungalow. Bob could stay there. Miss Peabody squeals with delight, and after that, things happen quickly. Bob is to be delivered Saturday morning.
8 mins
Charlie Noble And Mate
THERE WAS ONCE a sea captain named Charlie Noble who had a reputation for neatness.
4 mins
Nobody's Cat
On a quiet, tree-lined street in New York City lives a stray tabby cat.
9 mins
Stony Faces
Some gargoyles are weird and scary, others are funny. But all gargoyles spit!
2 mins
Launching Rockets
The Story of Robert H. Goddard
8 mins
The Bushwhackers
Papa’s off fighting for the Yankees when Bill Wilson and his gang of Missouri bushwhackers descend upon the McBrides. Mama, Aunt Lula, and Josey watch helplessly as the men ransack the farmhouse. Bill grabs Josey’s school lunchpail but flings it away when he discovers it’s full of snapping crawdads. Josey had planned to put a big ol’ crawdad in her sister Dora’s bed. When two of the bushwhackers pour some of Mama’s molasses into a ceramic pot they found in the yard, Josey’s eyes almost pop out of her head. The pot is the slop jar Dora has been using to relieve herself while laid up with a bad cold. Josey, disgusted at having to empty it, had purposely left the pot in the yard so Dora would have to use the outdoor privy.
6 mins
The Weeping Lass At The Dancing Place
OUTSIDE MANY A Scottish village, where the crossroads meet, there will be a level bit of ground lying in one of the triangles made by the intersection of the roads.
10 mins
Listening To The Body
The woman was rushed to Necker Hospital in Paris.
6 mins
The Inside Name
OUTSIDE, I AM called FelipeAlonso. But inside, I have a secret name.
9 mins
The Great Grasshopper Mystery
SCORCHING WINDS RIPPLED through the sea of brown grass as Tom and his pony drove the family’s small herd of cattle onto the prairie to graze. Tom’s father had gone into town that morning, leaving the ten-year-old in charge of the herd. Fences were rare on the Kansas frontier, and it was Tom’s job to keep the family’scattle from scattering over the vast grassland.
8 mins
John Snow And The Broad Street Pump On The Trail Of An Epidemic
BRITISH DOCTOR JOHN Snow couldn’t convince other doctors and scientists that cholera, a deadly disease, was spread when people drank contaminated water— until a mother washed her baby’s diapers in a town well in 1854 and touched off an epidemic that killed 616 people.
6 mins
Tamitha And The Dragon
TAMITHA WAS ALREADY high in the air by the time she realized a dragon had snatched her. She’d been moseying along the road, making up a poem about pasta in her head, when the creature swooped down from the clouds, all bulging red muscles and sharp scales. The dragon flapped his enormous batwings, wrapped his bronze claws around her, and took off into the sky before Tamitha could think of a word that rhymed with“linguine.”
9 mins
The Adventures Of Wise Hodja
HOW MANY STARS are in the sky? Where is the center of the world? These are questions that people have asked since they first looked at the earth and the sky.
5 mins
Cricket Magazine for Kids Description:
Publisher: Cricket Media
Category: Children
Language: English
Frequency: 9 Issues/Year
Cricket feeds the minds and imaginations of kids ages 9 - 14. Every issue is filled with stories, poems, puzzles, recipes, and science and nature articles - all designed to stimulate the imagination and help young people discover the world around them.
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