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

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Dear Everybuggy,

My nonna recently found my mom’s old Cricket magazines. I was reading them one day when a story from the October 1976 issue caught my eye. “Minnie Maloney and Macaroni” is about a family who buys seven boxes of macaroni every day for good luck. Knowing me, I decided to calculate how many boxes per year Minnie bought: 2,555! Imagine all the mac and cheese you could make with such a number!

Maybe I can convince my grandmother, as we’re off to the store right now. Toodles!

Eva Middleton, age 12 Hightstown, New Jersey

Hello!

I am a new Chatterboxer. A little about myself: I enjoy crafts such as knitting, beading, and book binding. I take karate. I like biking. I play piano. I have a large number of siblings. I absolutely love reading and writing, which brings me to another topic! A name! How did you people choose yours? I’ve been thinking about using Scrivener, since I like to write and Scrivener is the name of medieval scribes. I would love to meet all of you!

(Possibly) Scrivener Down to Earth, Chatterbox

Hello!

I live in a pretty small town (in the middle

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