BOOKS BY CATHERINE LLOYD BURNS
The Good, the Bad & the Beagle
The Half-True Lies of Cricket Cohen
For adults
It Hit Me like a Ton of Bricks: A Memoir of a Mother and Daughter
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As an actress, Catherine Lloyd Burns has appeared on numerous television shows, including Malcolm in the Middle, E.R., Law and Order, and Al Franken’s Lateline. She is the author of the children’s book The Good, the Bad and The Beagle and the memoir It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
1. If Only Something Would Fall Out of the Sky
2. Cricket and Dodo Play a Trick
3. Recess Revisited
4. Watching the Clock
5. Bears and Squirrels and Hot-Air Balloons
6. Abby’s Threat
7. She’s Losing It
8. Escape to the Park
9. Veronica!
10. Brain Surgery
11. The World’s Youngest Professor of Greek
12. Abby Quits
13. Cricket Offers to Help
14. Fateful Friday
15. The Yellow Couch
16. Art and Science
17. A Walk in the Park with Dodo
18. The Pierre
19. Old Movies
20. Reinvention
21. The Mix-Up
22. Barneys
23. What Happened at the Restaurant
24. The Barneys Basement
25. Officer Coolidge and Officer Bryant
26. The Nineteenth Precinct
27. Missing
28. The Waiting Game
29. Bunny’s Big Moment
30. Breadsticks and Marbles
31. “The Erratics of West Sixty-Fourth Street” by Cricket Cohen
Acknowledgments
Also by Catherine Lloyd Burns
About the Author
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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Text copyright © 2017 by Catherine Lloyd Burns
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First hardcover edition, 2017
eBook edition, August 2017
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Burns, Catherine Lloyd, author.
Title: The half-true lies of Cricket Cohen / Catherine Lloyd Burns.
Description: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. | Summary: In trouble at home and school again for turning in a not-quite honest memoir, eleven-year-old Cricket and her equally fanciful grandmother, Dodo, set out on a crosstown Manhattan adventure.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017018549 (print) | LCCN 2016038539 (ebook) | ISBN 9780374300418 (hardback) | ISBN 9780374300425 (ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Imagination—Fiction. | Grandmothers—Fiction. | Old age—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Family life—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. | New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. | Humorous stories. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents. | JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories. | JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education. | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship.
Classification: LCC PZ7.B9364 Hal 2014 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.B9364 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038539
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