Katie the Catsitter
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Colleen AF Venable
NOMINATED FOR MULTIPLE STATE AWARDS!Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! Introducing an irresistible new middle-grade graphic novel series about growing up, friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats!)--perfect for fans of Guts, Awkward and Real Friends (not to mention anyone who loves cats!)“Readers will revel in the heroic antics.” --The New York TimesKatie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp--something that's way out of Katie and her mom's budget, UNLESS Katie can figure out a way to earn the money for camp herself. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbor, life get interesting. First, Madeline has 217 cats (!) and they're not exactly . . . normal cats. Also, why is Madeline always out EXACTLY when the city's most notorious villain commits crimes?! Is it possible that Katie's upstairs neighbor is really a super villain? Can Katie wrangle a whole lot of wayward cats, save a best friendship (why is Beth barely writing back? And who's this boy she keeps talking about?!), AND crack the biggest story in the city's history? Some heroes have capes . . . Katie has cats!Don't miss the next Katie the Catsitters—Katie the Catsitter 2: Best Friends for Never and Katie the Catsitter 3: Secrets and Sidekicks!A Florida Sunshine State Reader Award nomineeA South Carolina Book Award nomineeA Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award nomineeA Vermont Golden Dome Book Award nomineeA Maine Student Book Award nomineeA North Carolina Children's Book Award nomineeAn Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award nomineeAn Illinois Bluestem Readers’ Choice nomineeAnd more!
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Author
Colleen AF Venable
Pages
224
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published Date
2021-01-05
ISBN
0593306325 9780593306321
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"An entry for the book club with my 8yo grand niece. Adorable book that revolves around girls, women and superheroes. Katie, about 8-10, grows up in NYC with a single mom and cannot afford the camp session her friends go to, so she gets small jobs to earn money. Her neighbor asks her to feed her cats, all 217 of them, each with a skill that Katie ends up deploying later. I loved the many cats, their many skills and the teams they form — ninja cats, MMA cats, DJ cats, gymnast cats. Katie makes enough money to afford camp, but she decides to put the money toward vet school. Clever story, and the illustrator gives each cat a distinct personality."
Diane Morello
"While I very much enjoyed the first book in this series as did my 10 yr old daughter, I didn't like this one as much. My 10 yr old enjoyed it because she loves Katie the Catsitter and thinks she's super funny and she also loved the cats and all their names and what they could do to help with solving crimes. I thought it was cute and fun with the cats and with Katie officially being a superhero sidekick in this one. It was about par for the course with Katie's best friend situation where she and Beth had spent the summer apart and grown in different ways so they changed. So, of course, their friendship also had to change with Beth having a boyfriend. It illustrates some good topics and things that friends have to learn to deal with and how things can change as you grow up and go in different directions than your friends with your life. This has good potential for further installments in this world and can be helpful to be used with kids when discussing some topics and such. The illustrations and art in this graphic novel are very well done also.<br/>Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Children's/Random House Books for Young Readers for letting me read and review this graphic novel. All thoughts and opinions are my own."
Annette W
"beautiful art style & story! :)"
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