The Cricket Warrior

A Chinese Tale

Kids, People and Places, Fiction, Asia, Teen, General Fiction
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Author: Margaret Chang, Raymond Chang ISBN: 9781481488914
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Publication: November 29, 2016
Imprint: Margaret K. McElderry Books Language: English
Author: Margaret Chang, Raymond Chang
ISBN: 9781481488914
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication: November 29, 2016
Imprint: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language: English

A young boy must become the greatest cricket warrior of all time in order to save his family in this stirring folktale about bravery and sacrifice.

This retelling of the Chinese folktale, “The Fighting Cricket,” first recorded in the seventeenth century, is a tale of extraordinary bravery, sacrifice, and familial devotion. Young Wei nian’s family is in trouble. Their farm has been fruitless for three years and their only hope of keeping it is to find a cricket for the emperor’s cricket fights. When Wei nian accidentally loses the cricket that they capture he is devastated, but an old man offers him a choice. Will Wei nian become the greatest cricket warrior of all to save his family? And if he does, will he ever find his way home again?

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A young boy must become the greatest cricket warrior of all time in order to save his family in this stirring folktale about bravery and sacrifice.

This retelling of the Chinese folktale, “The Fighting Cricket,” first recorded in the seventeenth century, is a tale of extraordinary bravery, sacrifice, and familial devotion. Young Wei nian’s family is in trouble. Their farm has been fruitless for three years and their only hope of keeping it is to find a cricket for the emperor’s cricket fights. When Wei nian accidentally loses the cricket that they capture he is devastated, but an old man offers him a choice. Will Wei nian become the greatest cricket warrior of all to save his family? And if he does, will he ever find his way home again?

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