| Description |
172 pages ; 22 cm. |
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age Children |
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age Children |
| Series |
Trophy Newbery
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Trophy Newbery.
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| Contents |
Cat and Kate -- Cat and the underworld -- Cat and Coney -- Fight -- Around Manhattan -- And Brooklyn -- Survival -- West Side story -- Fathers -- Cat and the parkway -- Rosh Hashanah at the Fulton Fish Market -- The Red Eft -- Left Bank of Coney Island -- Expedition by ferry -- Dollars and cats -- Fortune -- Telephone numbers -- "Here's to cat!" |
| Summary |
A New York City 14-year-old boy has more in common with his cat than his father. My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy. This is one reason I got a cat. Dave Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, and whenever the fighting starts, Dave's mother gets an asthma attack. That's when Dave storms out of the house. Then Dave meets Tom, a strange boy who helps him rescue Cat. It isn't long before Cat introduces Dave to Mary, a wonderful girl from Coney Island. Slowly Dave comes to see the complexities in people's lives and to understand himself and his family a little better. |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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National Book Committee. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Cats -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cats. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0064400735 |
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9780064400732 |
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