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The Cat at the Wall (Hardcover)
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The Cat at the Wall (Hardcover)
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List price R454
Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
You Save R64 (14%)
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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? Correlates to the Common Core
State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in
a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g.,
how characters interact).
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