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NEW Exciting Crickets Reviews Continue!!!

Posted on April 3, 2018 by MarilynApril 3, 2018

Editorial Reviews Review “(A)n atmospheric coming-of-age story with plenty of plot twists and turns.” – School Library Connection, starred review “In lingering, evocative prose, this story is demonstratively reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, including a stifling courtroom inquiry of … Continue reading →

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NEW – Cricket Review from School Library Journal

Posted on February 5, 2018 by MarilynFebruary 5, 2018

School Library Journal (SLJ) February Reviews DONAHUE, Marilyn Cram. When the Crickets Stopped Singing. 288p. Calkins Creek. Mar. 2018. Tr $17.95. ISBN 9781629797236. Gr 4-6-Twelve-year-old Angie anticipates another routine yet carefree summer in her small California town. But it’s 1939 and Hitler’s rise … Continue reading →

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Crickets. . And the Reviews Begin

Posted on December 28, 2017 by MarilynDecember 28, 2017

WHEN THE CRICKETS STOPPED SINGING Author: Marilyn Cram-Donahue In a small and apparently all-white town, Angelina and her friends face a sinister danger. It’s a roasting hot summer in 1939, and Angelina is troubled by news of Hitler as newscasters … Continue reading →

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The Book I Had To Write!

Posted on July 29, 2017 by MarilynDecember 28, 2017

Nothing compares to the feeling I get when the germ of an idea pops from some mysterious place in my brain, floats around a while like a sea gull’s feather, caught in the sea breeze, then settles down so I … Continue reading →

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My Next Adventure – When the Crickets Stopped Singing

The time grows nearer. . . “When the Crickets Stopped Singing” Available March 20, 2018!!! “This is an emotionally resonant historical novel for older middle grade readers set in the summer of 1939. Twelve-year-old Angie Wallace and her friends embark … Continue reading →


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A Moment in Time

Posted on February 6, 2015 by MarilynDecember 28, 2017

    Explanation:       In the memoir class I teach, I encourage students to choose single moments from their memories and expand them into vignettes. For starters, I suggested that they reach back into the past and try to recapture a … Continue reading →

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CRAM FAMILY HISTORY

Posted on June 24, 2013 by MarilynFebruary 7, 2015

Compiled by Marilyn Cram Donahue and Lucile Cram Whitecotton Suttle           John Henry Cram was born in 1788 in Jay, New York, Essex County. This was a rather hilly region west of the Hudson River. He grew up in Jay, … Continue reading →

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From the Notes of Frank L. Cram

Posted on June 24, 2013 by MarilynFebruary 7, 2015

        When Frank Cram was a little boy, he used to get to go to San Bernardino once a week on Saturday. He said they went many times to visit his Grandmother Wakefield when they lived down at Olive and ranched … Continue reading →

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Highland Christmas

Posted on January 1, 2013 by MarilynFebruary 6, 2015

Noted author and local historian Marilyn Cram Donahue shares her memories of Christmas from earlier times in the small town of Highland, California.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNFR9LppM4Y&feature=youtu.be … Continue reading →

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Love to Dance

Posted on February 19, 2012 by MarilynFebruary 7, 2015

When I was young, I danced in the living room with the carpet rolled back against the wall and my mother’s fringed light fixture pulled up by its chain so we wouldn’t bump our heads on it.        I danced … Continue reading →

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