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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2016 by Marion Dane Bauer

Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Jennifer A. Bell

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The illustrations for this book were rendered in pencil and finished digitally.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bauer, Marion Dane.

Little cat’s luck / Marion Dane Bauer ; illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell. — 1st edition.

pages cm

Summary: A little cat named Patches manages to push out a window screen and leave her house, chasing a falling leaf, and sets out to find a special place to call her own.

ISBN 978-1-4814-2488-2 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4814-2490-5 (eBook) [1. Novels in verse. 2. Cats—Fiction. 3. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 4. Dogs—Fiction.

5. Animals—Infancy—Fiction.] I. Bell, Jennifer (Jennifer A.), 1977– illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.5.B385Lg 2016

[Fic]—dc23

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