Book
The Cricket in Times Square
- Published
- 1960
- Genre
- Classics
- Pages
- 176
- Words
- 25278
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24384.The_Cricket_in_Times_Square?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.9
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 780L
- Guided reading level
- S
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–11
- Ambleside year
- Years 4–6 · ages 9–14
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Mario, the son of Mama and Papa Bellini, proprietors of the subway-station newsstand, had only heard the sound once. What was this new, strangely musical chirping? None other than the mellifluous leg-rubbing of the somewhat disoriented Chester Cricket from Connecticut. Attracted by the irresistible smell of liverwurst, Chester had foolishly jumped into the picnic basket of some unsuspecting New Yorkers on a junket to the country. Despite the insect's wurst intentions, he ends up in a pile of dirt in Times Square.
Collections
Mensa Kids · K-3The Good & The Beautiful · 6
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780440228899
- ISBN-10
- 0440228891
Tags
Award Winners-Newbery HonorCommon Core State Standards Appendix B Titles-CCSS Grade Band 2-3Mensa KidsRecommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 3-5Recommended Reading-Reading RocketsThe Good & The Beautiful