The moving story “Two Dollars” follows a young girl during the Great Depression. Although she worries about how much money her family has, she realizes how much more difficult it can be for other families when she follows her father to collect rent from his tenants. She soon learns that helping others comes with its own reward.
Learn how currency has evolved through human history, to bartering for food to cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, and join a fascinating debate over whether it’s really a good idea to pay people for donating blood. Then, explore your own values and ethics—and imagine what it would be like to sit on a futuristic panel debating whether humans should be brought back from extinction!
You can learn financial lessons from the most surprising places. Discover how tulip mania led to economic chaos, check out the extraordinary date palm tree, and read the little-known story of the Great Mound Robbery of Oklahoma.
CRICKET features exclusive interviews with real life experts and professionals in each issue! Sit down for an interview with Ulunda Baker, who rose from childhood poverty to become a finance leader and community builder. Then, meet popular Sensical creators Abdallah Smash and Lily Hevesh and see what they value about what they make, build and play.
Each issue of CRICKET is full of exciting special features, letters, and creative submissions from CRICKET readers! Explore the dimensions with the long-running comic strip Parallel U, Solve a “Crossbird” puzzle, hunt for the made-up news story, and so much more! Enjoying this issue of CRICKET makes perfect “cents!”
Enjoy features including:
- “Two Dollars” by Sharona F. Vedol
- “Spare Change” by Susan Vande Griek
- “Cash for Blood” by Kathryn Hulick
- “The Frog’s Tale” by Karin Gottshall
- “Rahim’s Pangolin by Kimberly Long Cockroft
- “Trial in Absentia” by Duchie Jingles
- “What Makes It Matter”
- “When Fortunes Blossomed” by Nick D’Alto
- “Chess” by Putnam Goodwin-Boyd
Regular features of CRICKET Magazine include Letterbox, Cricket Country, From the Editor, News or Not, One on One, Timeline, Around the World, Parallel U, History Vault, A Closer Look, Ugly Bird’s Crossbird Puzzle, Hands-On, Cricket and Ladybug, Cricket League, Old Cricket Says, Last Slice, and Bonus Tracks.
