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The Cat at the Wall
Contributor(s): Ellis, Deborah (Author)
ISBN: 1554984912     ISBN-13: 9781554984916
Publisher: Groundwood Books
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Values & Virtues
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Violence
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Middle East
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 680
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.6" (0.55 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Ethnic Orientation - Arabic
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 168927
Reading Level: 4.8   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 4.0
 
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Publisher Description:

A remarkable and thought-provoking new novel set on Israel's West Bank, by the author of The Breadwinner.

On Israel's West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards.

Should she help him?

After all, she's just a cat.

Or is she?

It turns out that this particular cat is not used to thinking about anyone but herself. She was once a regular North American girl who only had to deal with normal middle-school problems -- staying under the teachers' radar, bullying her sister and the uncool kids at school, outsmarting her clueless parents.

But that was before she died and came back to life as a cat, in a place with a whole different set of rules for survival.

When the little boy is discovered, the soldiers don't know what to do with him. Where are the child's parents? Why has he been left alone in the house? It is not long before his teacher and classmates come looking for him, and the house is suddenly surrounded by Palestinian villagers throwing rocks, and the sound of Israeli tanks approaching.

Not my business, thinks the cat. And then she sees a photograph, and suddenly she understands what happened to the boy's parents, and why they have not returned. And as the soldiers begin to panic, and disaster seems certain, she knows that it is up to her to diffuse the situation.

But what can a cat do? What can any one creature do?