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Title Author Grade level
 " Cricket in Time Square"   George Sheldon   3rd to 5th

 

Genre:
Fiction, chapter book

 

Summary of the story :

   After Chester, a cricket, arrives in the Times Square subway station from his native Connecticut via a picnic basket, he takes up residence in the Bellinis' newsstand. There tiny Chester is lucky enough to find three good friends: 

  •  a little boy named Mario, whose parents run the unsuccessful newsstand;

  • a fast-talking Broadway mouse called Tucker;

  •  and Tucker's pal, Harry Cat. Between escapades in New York City,

the four somehow manage to bring success to the almost bankrupt newsstand.

 

 

 

 

Possible Design Challenges:
  • Designing a home for the cricket,  
  • designing a sound system to amplify the crickets sound.
  • Designing a food system for the cricket, mouse and cat.

 

 
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  Prepared by  Bill Wolfson.  Copyright © 2011
Last Updated 
08/23/2011