hopper hopper
Ticks
wicket cricket
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Rodents Mold Grime Tenant Bugs, dirty, too small, rodents, bad neighborhood, noisy neighbors
There's Still No Joy in Mudville
Ants on Ice
Heimlich
flick
The name of the caterpillar is Heimlich.
slim
cicada cricket
Shake it off if you don't like bugs.
Francis
His name is Hopper. His sidekick, who is his brother, is Molt.
Catipillar cricket, cockroach
Yes, and crunchy too
When I was writing CLASS CLOWN, the first book in which she appears, I consulted my file of names. ("Collecting" names is sort of a hobby with me.) There was the name Cricket which was the first name of a teacher with whom I once worked. It seemed the perfect name for Lucas Cott's nemesis. After all, she irrates Lucas so much that she just "bugs" him all the time. And so his classmate became Cricket Kaufman. Johanna Hurwitz When I was writing CLASS CLOWN, the first book in which she appears, I consulted my file of names. ("Collecting" names is sort of a hobby with me.) There was the name Cricket which was the first name of a teacher with whom I once worked. It seemed the perfect name for Lucas Cott's nemesis. After all, she irrates Lucas so much that she just "bugs" him all the time. And so his classmate became Cricket Kaufman. Johanna Hurwitz