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CBC Showcase: Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, and Fantasy:
Genre Fiction for Young People
Reissued with charming new illustrations, this beloved classic follows nine-year-old Simms as he learns to communicate via Morse code with the cricket living under the floor of his bedroom.
Simms Sylvanus is nine years old and enormously wise. He knows more about volcanoes than his father knows about business and more about electromagnetic fields than anyone in his class. His ideas to improve things are amazing! Yet nobody - not even his parents - will listen to him.
A cricket is living a solitary life beneath the floorboards in Simms' room. His bride-to-be has left him after a fight, and in his loneliness he turns for companionship to the other creatures who live underground. Soon he finds himself deeply involved in their struggle for survival.
Everything changes one winter's day when Simms and Cricket discover they can communicate with each other.
Ages 8-12
ISBN: 9780802852892
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
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