Where the Crickets Sing: Barn Chronicles Book 3 (Rosie Boom)

Where the Crickets Sing

Barn Chronicles Book Three

“The Barn Chronicles are the best books I have ever read! They are full of fun, adventures, celebrations, broken legs, and heaps more! I would love to live in a barn like that and live on that property with a river, animals, swings, eels and everything else!” — Maria (10)

Winner of the 2013 Christian Small Publisher’s International Book of the Year Award (Children’s Category, 8-12 years)

Where the Crickets Sing by Rosie Boom is a warm-hearted, engaging book for the whole family to enjoy. The third book in her award-winning series, The Barn Chronicles, it invites readers to join the Boom family in another year of homesteading in rural New Zealand.

Going on the pony trek to the beach is a dream come true for twelve-year-old Milly — trekking over high hills, swimming Peony in the sea, galloping along the beach. But when tragedy strikes, the excitement turns to tears.

Adventures, dramas, laughter and some tears are all part of the rich tapestry of the Boom family’s third year of living in their ninety-year-old barn. Milly’s days are full to the brim as she cares for her animals, milks her cow, enjoys adventures with her brothers and sisters, and helps Mum and Dad build the new family home. She is as happy as a cricket. But that doesn’t stop her lying awake at night, dreaming of hitching Peony to a wagon, climbing into the high wagon seat and picking up the reins.

Reviews

“A modern-day Little House on the Prairie – and every bit as charming as that classic. My daughter was just spellbound as we read The Barn Chronicles. Though they were family read-alouds she kept sneaking off with them to read ahead. In an era where wholesome, fun children’s novels are increasingly hard to come by, this series is a gem.” — Lisa Taylor

Where the Crickets Sing is a fabulous book! It’s packed full of adventures, fun times, and even more so chocked full of animals!!! It’s the best book ever! (and the two other books before it!) Keep writing more books because I can’t wait to read the next one!” — Melanie Pinkney (10)

“There is something about reading of life in the Boom’s barn that creates the warmest of family bonds. I can’t really describe it, but it’s there.” — Veronica (mother)

“A lovely family read that will keep young adventurers, boy and girl, riveted to the page.” — Jenny Waldron

About the Author

Rosie Boom is a wife and homeschooling mother of six children, living in rural New Zealand. Her passion is to encourage and inspire others.  Over the years, Rosie has mastered the art of communicating this passion through songwriting and singing, and public speaking. But her marvelous books, The Gift of Values (1 & 2) and The Barn Chronicles Series (4 volumes) have traveled farther afield than either time or money enable her to go in person.

The eight members of the Boom family live on a small homestead in Whangarei, New Zealand. Rosie and her husband Chris have been married for over 30 years.  They met about the time Rosie had traveled to Borneo to be involved in missionary work.  Much of her childhood was spent in Papua New Guinea, where her parents were missionaries, in what she fondly recalls as a fantastic childhood – weird and wonderful pets, jungle clubs, huts by the river, and exploration of all kinds. But they returned to New Zealand and she later completed nursing training and served in hospitals for a number of years, before commencing her writing.