The Cricket in Times Square

One tempting sniff of liverwurst carries Chester Cricket from a Connecticut meadow to the busiest place on earth: the Times Square subway station. There he finds a boy named Mario, a fast-talking mouse named Tucker, a wise cat named Harry — and a gift nobody expected: a perfect musical memory that turns one small chirp into the most famous music in New York. George Selden’s Newbery Honor classic (1961) asks the loveliest of questions: when the whole city stops to listen, what does a musician owe his audience — and what does he owe his own heart? These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel (15 chapters), each with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, an SAT/TOEFL-style test, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.