The Young Adult Award-Winners Megapack
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Contents
COPYRIGHT INFO
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
The MEGAPACK™ Ebook Series
IT’S LIKE THIS, CAT, by Emily Cheney Neville
RUNNER OF THE MOUNTAIN TOPS: THE LIFE OF LOUIS AGASSIZ, by Mabel Louise Robinson
THE WINDY HILL, by Cornelia Meigs
TOD OF THE FENS, by Elinor Whitney
THE JUMPING-OFF PLACE, by Marian Hurd McNeely
SPICE AND THE DEVIL’S CAVE, by Agnes Danforth Hewes
NEW LAND, by Sarah Lindsay Schmidt
COPYRIGHT INFO
The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK™ is copyright © 2015 by Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.
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The MEGAPACK™ ebook series name is a trademark of Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Young Adult Award-Winners MEGAPACK™ assembles seven Classic YA Books, from fiction to biography, written by some of the most celebrated 20th century children’s authors. Enjoy!
—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
www.wildsidepress.com
ABOUT THE SERIES
Over the last few years, our MEGAPACK™ ebook series has grown to be our most popular endeavor. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”
The MEGAPACK™ ebook series (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt (me), Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Shawn Garrett, Helen McGee, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!)
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Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.
TYPOS
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IT’S LIKE THIS, CAT, by Emily Cheney Neville
A Newbery Medal Winner, 1964.
Dedication
To
MIDNIGHT,
“Mayor” of Gramercy Park
1954-1962
CHAPTER 1
CAT AND KATE
My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy. This is one reason I got a cat.
My father talks a lot anyway. Maybe being a lawyer he gets in the habit. Also, he’s a small guy with very little gray curly hair, so maybe he thinks he’s got to roar a lot to make up for not being a big hairy tough guy. Mom is thin and quiet, and when anything upsets her, she gets asthma. In the apartment—we live right in the middle of New York City—we don’t have any heavy drapes or rugs, and Mom never fries any food because the doctors figure dust and smoke make her asthma worse. I don’t think it’s dust; I think it’s Pop’s roaring.
The big hassle that led to me getting Cat came when I earned some extra money baby-sitting for a little boy around the corner on Gramercy Park. I spent the money on a Belafonte record. This record has one piece about a father telling his son about the birds and the bees. I think it’s funny. Pop blows his stack.
“You’re not going to play that stuff in this house!” he roars. “Why aren’t you outdoors, anyway? Baby-sitting! Baby-talk records! When I was your age, I made money on a newspaper delivery route, and my dog Jeff and I used to go ten miles chasing rabbits on a good Saturday.”