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Absolutely Alfie and the furry purry secret  Cover Image Book Book

Absolutely Alfie and the furry purry secret / by Sally Warner ; illustrations by Shearry Malone.

Warner, Sally, 1946- (author.). Malone, Shearry, (illustrator.).

Summary:

After seven-year-old Alfie willfully breaks the family no-pet rule by adopting one of her neighbor's kittens, she confides in her older brother EllRay, who convinces her to confess to their parents.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781101999868
  • ISBN: 1101999861
  • ISBN: 9781101999882
  • ISBN: 1101999888
  • ISBN: 9780606404860
  • ISBN: 0606404864
  • Physical Description: 131 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, [2017]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Floop! -- Playing ping-pong with words -- Backwards day -- Surprise! -- Free to a good home -- The decision -- Kitten sschool -- A Kitty palace -- Operation Kittycat -- Flat-out lying -- Ready and waiting -- Dinner in a haunted house -- Family rules -- Take your medicine -- Coming clean -- What in the world were you thinking? -- Such a mess up -- A Jakes family portrait.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
Subject: Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Kittens > Juvenile fiction.
Pets > Juvenile fiction.
Pets > Fiction.
Cats > Fiction.
Animals > Infancy > Fiction.
Family life > Fiction.
Secrets > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION > Animals > Cats.
JUVENILE FICTION > Social Issues > Friendship.
JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > United States > African American.
Friendship.
Kittens.
Pets.
Schools.
Genre: Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
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Sally Warner (sallywarnerbooks.com) has published more than twenty novels for young readers, including the Emma and EllRay Jakes series. She lives in Altadena, California with her husband and their dachshund Jimmy Shivers.


Shearry Malone (shearrymaloneillustration.com) was born and raised in the eclectic college town of Athens, GA. Shearry has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and illustrates in a fun, simplistic and quirky style. Shearry now resides in Nashville, TN.


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