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Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is now Tabitha, the descendant of an Egyptian goddess, and she is coming back to seek revenge!
Thomasina, like Jenny of The Abandoned, Gallico’s other great feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasina’s great-aunt), tells her own story in her own way, witty, charming, divine, and sometimes as sharp as an unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer delight.
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Release date
July 3, 2018 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781681372334
- File size: 915 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781681372334
- File size: 915 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 1190
- Text Difficulty: 9-12
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Reviews
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July 1, 2018
Cat Thomasina is scheduled to be put down by her owner's veterinarian father, but she is rescued and awakens convinced she's the Egyptian Cat Goddess Bast-Ra. Thomasina narrates some chapters in the first person, and her delusions add humor to a thoughtful novel. However, dense narration and some dated portrayals ("gipsies" who are cruel to their animals) may make this problematic for contemporary readers.(Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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