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My Pet Human

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 My Pet Human
By Yasmine Surovec
Roaring Brook Press, 2015. Intermediate fiction. 112p.

This short and sweet chapter book is a hybrid of text and comic. A very independent cat looks down on his friends’ dependence on humans, preferring his hardscrabble street life. But when a little girl moves into the abandoned house near his favorite haunt, he decides to try his hand at training humans. Just temporarily, of course. This is a funny and sweet look at life from a cat’s eye view. A great choice for readers transitioning from easy readers to chapter books and for all pet lovers.


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