Cricket®

A Cricket Magazine Group magazine

Language Arts for grades 5-9

Librarians, teachers, and students love CRICKET^® for its high-quality fiction and nonfiction. CRICKET features poetry, story, art, and photography contests. With its lively bug characters having adventures in the margins, explaining difficult words, and offering funny commentary on the text, CRICKET's creativity will spur readers to express themselves in new ways.

• Written by the best children's authors from the U.S. and abroad
• Monthly contests - best entries published in future issues
• Beautifully illustrated by well-known artists

"Each time a new issue arrives, we have eager children waiting to take out the latest copy." - Tina L. Labis, Media Aide, Hillcrest Elementary School

Cricket May/June 2013 (May, 2013)

Features include: Three Aunties; The First Swim of the Year; Skin Deep; Favorite First Sentences; Charles Steinmetz: Master of Electricity; The Gymnast; The Chance; My greatest Ambition; A Boy and His Dog; Scooter.