TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haas,Susan Tyler
AU  - Compton,Shanna
TI  - The year of the buttered cat: a mostly true story 
SN  - 9781734225938
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Oklahoma City
PB  - Penelope Editions
KW  - Haas, Lexi
KW  - Kernicterus
KW  - Patients
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Brain
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Brain damage
KW  - Wounds and injuries
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Brain-damaged children
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Ages 10-14; Penelope Editions; Grades 4-6; Penelope Editions
N2  - "Thirteen years ago, when she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi Haas. Something criminal. It left her with an out-of-control body and without a voice. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed teen, Lexi is counting down the final 24 hours to a risky brain surgery that might help her talk or-dare she dream it?-to walk and use her hands. As surgery grows closer, Lexi finds an urgent, relentless need to share the story of the year in her life she calls The Year of the Buttered Cat. That year, on the verge of shutting out the rest of the world, Lexi began a gutsy and solitary quest to find her "missing" body. After the family cat went missing, too, and a mysterious letter appeared, Lexi reluctantly enlisted two budding friends to aid her search. But when these friends also disappeared, Lexi had to learn new ways to reach out to the world to save her friendships and uncover the truth about what happened to her as a baby. The Year of the Buttered Cat is based on the real-life story of Lexi Haas. In the spirit of Wonder by R.J. Palacio and Out of my Mind by Sharon M. Draper, The Year of the Buttered Cat offers empowering, powerful messages of friendship, family, loss, and the art of redefining ourselves"--
ER  -