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

“In the Buginning” digital Kyle Reed is an illustrator based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His digital and traditional collage work has appeared in children’s book publishing, magazine publishing, and advertising. Cricket is very pleased to have Kyle

CRICKET STAFFLonnie Plecha EditorAnna Lender Art DirectorPatrick Murray DesignerCarolyn Digby Conahan Staff ArtistDeborah Vetter Senior Contributing EditorJulie Peterson CopyeditorEmily Cambias Assistant EditorHayley Kim Assistant EditorAdrienne Matz

Hi, Everybody! This is my first time writing to you. I love Cricket and reading a lot. I love the crossbird puzzles. There is so much snow here that we have missed one full week of school because of the snow. I am glad we do not have to make up for i

THE CONCERT HALL surged with excitement as two men in evening dress walked onto the stage of Paris’s Salle Pleyel. On this January evening in 1933, the audience hushed with anticipation as composer Maurice Ravel raised his baton before the orchestra.

THE HOLLOW OF the oak tree wasn’t dark enough. Zoia squeezed her head between her knees, letting her wool dress mute the sunlight, the sounds of the forest, and the angry knife of grief that found her heart every time she thought about last night. Zo

When I was so small that my head barely touched the windowsill,we lived in the evergreen forests of Vermont.Our home was far, far away from any town or city,but that was the way we liked it. Some winters, it got so cold that the river would freeze,wh

JAMIE RICE INCHED his chair closer to the fire that struggled to warm the Old Stone House. A surefooted skater, he had spent the morning zipping up and down the temporary ponds that last autumn’s rains had created in the frozen fields bordering the G

(Winterhouse, Book 1) by Ben Guterson This book is about a twelve-year-old girl who goes to a hotel during her winter break. She finds a book that is very powerful and she has to figure out what the book wants. This is a series. There are three books

Mythological Creature Ryan Coppa, age 9 Shaker Heights, OH The Day with Cerberus “But it’s unfair!” I protested. “For the last time, no World Series tickets,” Dad explained. I stomped to my room, not turning back. When I entered my room, I saw a m

MANY YEARS AGO, long before you were born, I was traveling together with a friend in the south of France. One day a farmer told us about an old, old cave that had been discovered in that region some years before. People were coming from all over to s