The Year of the Buttered Cat

The Year of the Buttered Cat A Mostly True Story

Paperback (16 May 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Includes 8 pages of full colour photos, in print for the first time!

When she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi. It left her with an out-of-control body and without a voice. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed thirteen-year-old, Lexi is counting down the final 24 hours to a risky brain surgery that might help her talk or-dare she dream it?-to walk and use her hands.

As surgery grows closer, Lexi finds an urgent, relentless need to share the story of the year in her life she calls The Year of the Buttered Cat. That year, on the verge of shutting out the rest of the world, Lexi began a gutsy and solitary quest to find her "missing" body... and she learns new ways to reach out to the world to save her friendships and uncover the startling truth about what happened to her as a baby.

In the spirit of Wonder by R.J. Palacio and Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, here is a riveting story that offers empowering messages of friendship, family, and the art of redefining ourselves.

About the Publisher

Little, Brown Young Readers

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780316575454
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 617.481092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 276g
Height: 194mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 24mm