![\"book](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TRii1sXXLp0\/T3mVb_3w4GI\/AAAAAAAAHxI\/HuSW8uuAXWA\/s200\/Cat%2BGirls%2BDay%2BOff.jpg?resize=135%2C200\")
One sister is a child genius, the other a human lie detector.\nHer dad is a super-sniffer and mom can out-think anyone anywhere.
\nWhy is Natalie’s Talent so… everyday?
\nNo wonder “hearing cats talk” is graded as class D.<\/p>\n
One sister is a child genius, the other a human lie detector.
\nHer dad is a super-sniffer and mom can out-think anyone anywhere.
\nWhy is Natalie’s Talent so… everyday?
\nNo wonder “hearing cats talk” is graded as class D.<\/p>\n
Nat is trying to keep her Talent quiet, but when she spots a pink cat<\/a> on video and understands his pleas for help, she can’t just sit idly by. Rufus’s person has been kidnapped right here in Chicago, and it all has something to do with the movie being filmed at her high school.<\/p>\n Wrigley Field<\/a> and other Windy City locales used in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off<\/a>” are the backdrop for the friends’ madcap chase after clues by train<\/a>, car, and sneakers, discussing things with cats they encounter (through Nat, of course).<\/p>\n Rufus and my cat Max chat a bit in my next post<\/a> as they introduce my first giveaway! For your chance to win an Advance Reader Copy of Cat Girl’s Day Off<\/i>, go here<\/a>. Book info<\/b>: Cat Girl’s Day Off \/ Kimberly Pauley. Tu Books, 2012. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy (viewed through NetGalley) and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My Recommendation<\/b>: Better to be a regular high school kid than show off her low-level Talent, thinks Natalie \u2013 until her gift for understanding cats\u2019 speech may solve a kidnapping!<\/p>\n Her mom, dad, and sisters are so Talented \u2013 supersniffing, X-ray vision, truth detection, chameleon camouflage \u2013 that Nat\u2019s talent seems worse than worthless. If the students at Shermer High treated her like that one boy in grade school who could make frogs change color by kissing them\u2026 bad news.<\/p>\n Her best friends Melly and Oscar know that she can talk to cats, but it\u2019s no big deal to them. The big deal to them is the movie that will be filming scenes at their school, just as \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off\u201d did \u2013 and they could be extras in the movie! Oscar is swooning over the leading man, while Melly hopes that appearing in \u201cFreddy\u2019s Day Off\u201d will boost her acting career.<\/p>\n In a video news clip of movie blogger Easton West \u2013 all in pink, of course \u2013 and her dyed-pink dog and cat arriving in Chicago, Nat realizes that the pink cat is yowling that this person is an imposter and that Easton West has been kidnapped! West\u2019s next blog post includes info that convinces Oscar that the person in that video is a fraud and that the pink cat must be telling the truth.<\/p>\n The three friends decide to rescue the pink cat and find out what\u2019s happened to the real Easton West \u2013 as fast as they can between sitting through take after take of movie scenes at the school and Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n How can Nat make the authorities take this seriously, when no other humans speak Cat? Easton West\u2019s last blog post before coming to Chicago threatened to expose one of the actresses \u2013 is this part of a plot? Will the imposter make good on her threat to kill the real Easton West? Oh, what will Nat\u2019s cute classmate Ian think if he discovers that she talks to cats and that they talk back??<\/p>\n
\n**kmm<\/p>\n