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Category:
Children
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN-10: 1681871661
Type: Fiction
Pages: 54
Copyright: December, 2015
ISBN-13: 9781681871660
Price: $7.99 (eBook)
Wholesome, pre-teen, fun, adventure book!
Join Lois "the reporter" as she works through the disappearance of her 80-year-old neighbor's cat.
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Excerpt
Chapter One -- Miss Goldie’s Cat
“That darn cat!”
Lois, age 10, heard the angry words. They came from her neighbor, Miss Goldie.
She hurried across her yard to Miss Goldie’s house. Why would Miss Goldie shout rough words at her cat, Morris? She loved her red tabby cat.
Lois ran around the corner of Miss Goldie’s house. Miss Goldie stood by her backdoor.
“Is something wrong?” Lois burst out.
“Oh, hi, Lois.” Miss Goldie chuckled. “I can’t find Morris. He always has his breakfast by now.”
Morris was an indoor-outdoor cat. He lived outdoors in fair weather. Otherwise, he slept in Miss Goldie’s house. He always ate his meals inside.
“He’s been gone before, hasn’t he?” Lois asked. She hoped to comfort Miss Goldie.
“Oh, he has,” the older woman said, “but that was before he had the operation.”
Morris was a five-year-old, male, red-tabby cat. The name red tabby was misleading. Morris’ fur had stripes of yellow-to-gold colors with an all-white tip on his tail. Through her ultraviolet sunglasses, though, Lois could see the red color in his fur.
Miss Goldie had had her cat spayed or neutered. That meant he could not make kittens with a female cat. Miss Goldie didn’t want him to make kittens because finding homes for the kittens was difficult. Also before the operation, Morris had roamed at night and returned scratched and wounded from fights with other cats.
“Maybe Mrs. Ed served something special,” Lois suggested.
Miss Goldie and Lois had seen Morris mosey across the street to Mrs. Ed’s yard.
Mrs. Ed was known to feed other cats.
“He could have eaten there,” Miss Goldie agreed. “Want to come in for a doughnut?”
“I can’t. I have to watch Lily while Mom vacuums.” Lily was Lois’s baby sister.
Lois loved visiting Miss Goldie. She went often to tell Miss Goldie the neighborhood news. She called Lois her reporter.
Miss Goldie was eighty years old and always found something good to say about a person.And she had the best treats in the neighborhood.
“Lois!”
That was her mother’s familiar voice. “Coming, Mom!” she called.
As Lois left, Miss Goldie added with a giggle, “Don’t get lost!”
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