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Cat Running

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1994168 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1994
first published
  • 1994Delacorte Press · 168 pages · ENGISBN 9780385310567
  • 1996Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers · 168 pages · ENGISBN 9780440411529
  • 2012Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781453283400
  • 2012Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781453283288
  • 1999Rebound by Sagebrush · ENGISBN 9780785781042
PlayfulWhimsicalShort read

When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.

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Written forMiddle grade
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