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It's like this, Cat / Emily Cheney Neville.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperTrophy, c1991.Description: 172 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0064400735
  • 9780064400732
  • 9780758701954
Subject(s):
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!"
Awards:
  • Newbery Medal, 1964.
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.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's Neville Emi 1964 Available Newbery/Caldecott Award Winner 33111006399618
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Newbery-winning classic novel about a young New Yorker who figures out the world on his own terms with the help of one prickly tomcat, for readers who enjoy such books as Al Capone Does My Shirts and Hoot.

Dave Mitchell and his father disagree on almost everything--and every time their fighting sets off his mother's asthma, Dave ends up storming out of the house. But when Dave meets a big, handsome tomcat, he decides to bring him home, no matter what his father has to say about it.

With adventure-loving Cat around, Dave meets lots of new people--like Tom, a young dropout on his own in the city, and Mary, the first girl he can talk to like a real person.

And as his eyes open to those around him, Dave starts to understand his father a little better. They still don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but there is one thing they can both agree on: Having a cat can be very educational--especially when it's one like Cat.

First published in 1963.

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!"

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.

Newbery Medal, 1964.

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