Books for Cat Lovers Display

Everything Cat

By Marty Crisp

NorthWord Press, 2003. Informational. 63 p.

This fun informational book uses a question-and-answer format to present a variety of information about cats.

Cool Cat

By Nonny Hogrogian

Roaring Book Press, 2009. Picture Book

Cool Cat's neighborhood isn't so cool. It's barren and brown, littered with rusty cans and broken bottles. No problem. With an old paint box, a troop of helpful animals, and lots of imagination, Cool Cat turns the world around him into a Rousseau-style masterpiece. An enchanting story of resourcefulness and positive thinking.

Catwings

By Ursula LeGuin

Orchard Books, 1988. Intermediate. 39 p.

Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.

Cat Secrets

By Jef Czekaj

Blazer Bray, 2011. Picture Book

Important secrets about how best to live a cat's life will be revealed only to those who can prove that they are genuine cats.

The Cat who went to Heaven

By Elizabeth Coatsworth

Aladdin, 1930. Newbery. 88 p.

In ancient Japan a struggling artist is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford to feed. As the artist and cat get to know each other, the artist comes to realize that cats are truly noble creatures.

Square Cat

By Elizabeth Schoonmaker

Aladdin, 2011. Picture Book

Eulah the cat is square and, while she longs to be round like other cats, her friends show her the benefits of the shape that she has.

Bad Kitty for President

By Nick Bruel

Roaring Brook Press, 2012. Intermediate.142 p.

Kitty decides to run for President of the Neighborhood Cat Association.

Kitten’s First Full Moon

By Kevin Henkes

Greenwillow Books, 2004. Caldecott. Picture Book

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

Socks

By Beverly Cleary

Marrow, 1973. Fiction. 156 p.

The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household.

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Painting for Peace in Ferguson

Painting for Peace in Ferguson By Carol Swartout Klein Treehouse Publishing Group, 2015. Nonfiction. When the city of Ferguson was overrun with so much hate and despair that homes and businesses had to be boarded up to protect property, citizens of the community decided to bring a message of hope by painting the boarded windows. Klein’s rhyming text supports the photographs of the hundreds of artists and volunteers and their artwork as they bring the messages of peace, hope, love, and that by being united they can make a difference. A great book to show children how a community rallied to make a positive change and that even a small gesture can make a huge difference. A great discussion opener on how we should treat each other.

Dragon Run

Dragon Run by Patrick Matthews Scholastic, 2013. 336 pgs. Fantasy Al Pilgrommor is excited for Testing Day, when he will receive his rank, a tattooed number on the back of his neck, and a path forward to his future occupation and life. He feels confident because his parents were fours on a scale of seven, but he is worried for his friend Wisp who doesn't have much of a chance of scoring above a two at best. But when Al is scored a zero, he not only has no prospects, he may lose his life as the dreaded Cullers are unleashed to kill him and his family to purify the land's bloodlines. Al's world is ruled by dragons--the lords and supposed creators of humankind--so he thinks that even if he survives, he will have to make his living as a beggar or thief. But when Al sticks up for his Earther friend in front of Magister Ludi, he is drawn into the struggle of a secret organization hoping to destroy the Cullers, and perhaps the dragons them...

Review: The Bletchley Riddle

The Bletchley Riddle By Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024. Fiction. 392 pages. It's spring of 1940, Hitler has swept through most of Europe, and people believe England will be next. Half Polish-Jewish, half American Jakob has been recruited from Cambridge to Bletchley Park where they are working on deciphering the enigma machine. Jakob's sister Lizzie, meanwhile, is being forced to move from London to Cleveland to live with her grandmother after her mother disappeared in a 1939 attack in Poland. Lizzie manages to escape the keeper her grandmother sent for her to bring her to America and makes her way to Bletchley, where she's eventually given the task of delivering messages between departments. When secret messages begin appearing with Lizzie's belongings, she must decipher them to find the truth about her mother's past and location, while keeping the secrets away from the MI5 agent that seems a little t...

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