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The Tommyknocker

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 6

Author

Nancy
Etchemendy

Appeared in

Cricket Magazine Vol 28, Num 9, May 2001

Story Summary

Young Joy Penryn doesn't believe in the old Welsh miner's tales of Tommyknockers until he is delivering his father's lunch and a voice tells him to run, saving his life just before a cave-in.