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Overview

When three kittens are carelessly thrown off the back of a truck, none of the highway cats know what to make of them. They seem to have some sort of appeal-an energy, even-that Khalia Koo, Jolly Roger and the rest of the mangy, feral cats don't understand. But there are bigger issues to figure out when the bulldozers start coming, threatening to demolish the cats? homes as well as other historical landmarks. Can three little kittens be the answer to save the town?

Illustrated with striking silhouettes, here is a spirited and original environmental story from Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle about finding help-and hope-in the smallest, most unlikely of places.

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When three tiny kittens are abandoned by the side of a busy highway, they miraculously make their way through the traffic and end up in a patch of scruffy woods abutting a mall, where a passel of feral cats eke out a rough existence. The kittens seem too innocent to survive, but somehow they have a redemptive effect on tough characters like cynical Shredder and the once-beautiful Siamese Khalia Koo. All of the cats notice that these strangers seem a bit "different," but when bulldozers come to turn the patch of land into a highway off-ramp, their magical qualities become apparent. Is it their mystical blue sparkle or their unworldly innocence that inspires the wild cats to work together to scare off the developers? It doesn't matter, because readers will focus on the fascinating, hard-bitten denizens of the dump. A mild, slightly wry sense of humor permeates this tale, from the descriptions of Khalia's business (she sells rat meat to a pet food company that makes a product called "Canned Rodent") to the inane conversations between the development-happy Mayor Blunt and his chief of staff. Illustrations in the form of dramatic silhouettes are sprinkled throughout the book. Recommend this novel to fans of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's "Cat Pack" series (S & S) or other animal adventure books.-Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library

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A poignant but dignified cat's-eye-view of a stretch of highway, a small, threatened forest and some quietly supernatural kittens. Interstate 95 "flow[s] down the center" of the lives of these feral cats, who perch on the shoulder awaiting the fast-food scraps tossed from car windows. Shopping-mall Dumpsters offer alternate foraging. Khalia Koo, a Siamese who hides her burned face behind yogurt containers and envelopes, runs a rat-meat business in the nearby woods. Shredder, a skinny old loner, sees a box of kittens dropped off on the center median. That they survive crossing the lanes seems miraculous, as does their power to open the scarred cats' hearts and make them band together. En masse, they defeat bulldozers trying to plow down their forest. The tiny, silent kittens are vaguely developmentally delayed and glow at night with a "faint silvery blue sparkle." Lisle frames and sprinkles the story with newspaper clippings and mayoral dialogue about destroying the woods; Frankland's graceful black silhouettes run across page bottoms. Understatedly sweet, faintly mystical and never twee. (Fantasy. 9-12)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780142414859
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/20/2009
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 693,772
  • Age range: 8 - 10 Years
  • Lexile: 0810L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Janet Taylor Lisle lives in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

David Frankland lives in England.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2012

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    I LOVE IT !!! :) YOU NEED TO READ IT!!! BUY IT !!! IT'S EPIC!!!!!!! :D

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  • Posted October 17, 2011

    GOOD BOOK, i wolud highly sugest reading

    This i a very good book, short but could be hard to read for 9- you should really read this book

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  • Posted July 10, 2011

    Pretty awesome

    I liked it but i wish the story had more book. Ya know... and the bag cat and the main charecter had more of their love exposed.

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  • Posted February 3, 2009

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    this book is my birthday book at my school i love it so much! it is about two cats that live on a highway find three kits on the road in a box they made it across the road without getting hit the two cats names are shredder and murray the claw murray thinks their is something funny about these kits if you are looking for a newberry book this one is by a newberry aouter! i really recommed this book i hope you enjoy it!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2012

    Cats

    This book is ¿wesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¿ read it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 12, 2011

    nvr heard of it

    ya nvr relly had seen this but idk. it looks ok.........idont know.....

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