Leonard (my life as a cat) / Carlie Sorosiak.
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TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First US editionDescription: 244 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781536207705
- 1536207705
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | SOROSIAK CARLIE | Available | 33111009801743 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | SOROSIAK CARLIE | Checked out | 07/19/2024 | 33111010498828 | |||
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Northport Library | Children's Fiction | SOROSIAK CARLIE | Available | 33111009841517 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
He's not a stray house cat, he's an immortal being. And now he must choose whether to return to his planet or remain with his new human friend in a humorous, heart-tugging story from the author of I, Cosmo.
The cat that Olive rescues from a flood has a secret: he's not really a cat at all, but an alien who crashed to Earth on a beam of light. The cat, whom Olive names Leonard, was prepared to visit the planet as a human--but something went wrong. Now Leonard may never know what it's like to hold an umbrella, go bowling, or host a dinner party. (And his human jokes still need some work: Knock, knock. Who's there? Just Leonard. It is me. ) While Olive worries about whether she will have to move after her mom and her new boyfriend get back from their summer vacation, Leonard tries to figure out how to get from South Carolina to Yellowstone National Park, because if he's not there at the end of the month, he'll miss his ride home. But as Olive teaches Leonard about the beautiful and confusing world of humans, he starts to realize how much he cares about this particular one. A sweet and dryly funny story about what it means to be human--and what it means to be home.
First published by Nosy Crow (UK) 2020. --Title page verso.
While no cat can be called ordinary, Leonard is definitely no ordinary cat. In fact, he is an alien, sent on an earthly sabbatical and mistakenly given the body of a rather scruffy stray. Rescued by animal lover Olive, Leonard does his best to study the humans he hoped to join while contending with the indignities of hair balls, kitty litter, and a compulsion to shred the curtains. And as he collects experiences - shared cheese sandwiches, jokes, and confidences with kind, lonely Olive - Leonard finds himself unexpectedly caught up in one of the most human emotions of all: love. The trouble? He needs to get to his pickup spot two thousand miles away by the end of the month or he will be stuck on Earth as a cat forever. Full of funny observations and the warmth of friendship, this is a tender meditation on what it means to be human.