Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

Old Cricket Says

CAN YOU IMAGINE playing with skeletons? How about eating skulls?

Or a picnic at night in the cemetery? Recently, my friend Brenda Sakofsky told me how the people the Day of the Dead. Mexicans traditionally believe that when people die, they go to a better life. Death is a beginning, not an end. And one night a year, November 2, the souls return to earth and families are reunited. A happy, fun-filled celebration is planned to welcome the dead.

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