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One of the recipients of the 1961 Newberry Medal Honor Book Awards (that same year Island of the Blue Dolphins won the award). Somehow I missed reading this book as a kid. I read it with my kids. They both LOVE it and were pleased to read it a second time. It is a wonderful little story. The bittersweet ending even brought tears to the eyes of my 9-year-old son - despite the fact that this was his second reading and he knew the ending. He seemed to identify with the boy who is the central charac
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What’s a cricket doing in Times Square? Chester soon finds himself surrounded by friends, both animal (a mouse and a cat) and human (a boy and his parents who own the newsstand where Chester finds himself). Chester discovers he is an extraordinary musician and develops quite a following in New York, but he longs to return to the country where he feels he really belongs.
