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Cat Running

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder · 1994 · 176 pages

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When 11-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy home life, she gets to know a poor family who has come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s. "Appealing and informative". —School Library Journal, starred.

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Genre
historical fictionliterary fiction
Themes
childhoodpoverty
Setting
1920scalifornia
Audience
childrensyoung adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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