The Trouble with Cats
Illustrator
Cat Bowman Smith
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Year
2000
ISBN
9780823414796
Pages
77 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
After a difficult first week of third grade, Holly begins to adjust to her new school and living in her new stepfather's tiny apartment with his four cats.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Divorce; Step Parent; divorced parents; step father
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
divorced parents
Awards
Best Books: Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for PreK-Grade 6, 13th Edition, 2002
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Keywords
moving; step father; cats; San Francisco
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Freeman, Martha, "The Trouble with Cats" (2000). Diverse Families. 1178.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1178