Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

It's like this, Cat

Neville, Emily Cheney.

It's like this, Cat - 172 pages ; 22 cm. - Trophy Newbery .

Originally published: c1963. Copyright renewed 1991.

Cat and Kate -- Cat and the underworld -- Cat and Coney -- Fight -- Around Manhattan -- Brooklyn -- Survival -- West Side story -- Fathers -- Cat and the parkway -- Rosh Hashanah at the Fulton Fish Market -- Red Eft -- Left Bank of Coney Island -- Expedition by ferry -- Dollars and cats -- Fortune -- Telephone numbers -- Here's to cat!.

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.

Interest age level: Ages 8-12. Lexile: 810L

Newbery medal, 1964

0064400735 9780064400732

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Cats--Fiction.


New York (N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.


Fiction.
Juvenile works.

PZ7.N462 / It 1991b