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The No Place Cat

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I thought this book was fine, not as good as "Ruthie's Gift" but still okay. I didn't like the girls' parents in the book though. They were such losers and so unlikeable and pathetic. I hated them. Tess was a nice girl and smart and pretty and nice and yet her parents treated her really badly. I don't blame her for running away from them. Her father is too hard on her like with grades and he doesn't care enough about her and doesn't understand her and gives her a bad time. He loves his new wife and kids more then her. She runs away and meets a cute cat while spending the night at a park. She takes the cat with her, because he's her new best friend. She runs away to her mom's house but her mother is EVEN more of a loser. She neglects her, and ignores her and blames her for everything and acts ten years younger then she is and says she's like her father and dates losers and is dangerous and leaves the poor kid alone by herself all day. She hates cats and refuses to let the girl keep it. Tess gives the cat to her best friend, Rita though she doesn't want to since she's fallen in love with it. Tess is sad and heartbroken, she has to put up with her iresponsible and mean and crazy and sick in the head mother. She gets phone calls from her worred and yet selfish and self-centered father and his evil wife. Tess is only 12, still a kid yet acts like an adult since she has no adults in her life to take care of her. She is very lonely and sad and hates living. The only bright spot is the cute cat she "adopted" into her life. Then her mother runs off with a wicked man, her father comes to get her. Her cat runs away, she finds him and takes him to the vet. The vet saves the cat, the girl is happy again and goes back to live with her father and his family since her mother left her. The girl discovers her father cares more about her then her mother, letting her keep the cat and saying he would take shots since he was allergic to them. Tess stays with her father and over the phone her witch of a mother tells her that she "loves" her. Tess doesn't know what to believe, but hangs up and is happy to have her cat and stepfamily. I hated the girl's mother. She was a LOSER. She was unlikeable, rude and a selfish self-centered nut case. Her father wasn't much promising either but did give her more then her stupid mother did. Tess was a nice, tomboyish wise-then-her years herioine. You ended up rooting for her to succeed. And she does. But I don't know what the author was aiming for with the parents. She created two of the most unlikeable, evil ugly parents that fiction has ever seen. And that's a fact. I hated the author for writing such awful characters. If you like a good kids book, try "Ruthie's Gift." It's much better.

The No Place Cat is a recent book I just read and I very much liked/enjoyed it!

Tess, a 12 yr. old girl, doesn't like to live with her dad. She has problems with Clare (her step mom) and her kids. One day, she brought home her Soc. Studies project (Tess's favorite subject)but Clare's kids wrecked it. Tess goes to live with her mom at her condo. Tess walks there and on the way she sees a cat that follows her to her mom's condo. Since Tess's mom doesn't like cats, Tess has to choose between living with her mom or keeping the cat.
What will she choose?
I would recommend this bok because it is very interesting. I mostly think it is for kids because it deals with a girl, a cat, and problems some of us kids face. You never know what'll happen next. Tess is a very clever girl. She'll have you guessing about what she will do next. C.S. Adler writes about incidents about real life. She is very creative in her writing and puts it in exciting parts that scare or excite you. In conclusion, I think kids of all ages should read this book because it is a realistic story by a very talented writer

The Book is about a cat following a 12-year-old girl, named Tess, who is having family problems.
I think this is a good book to read because my family and I relate a lot to Tess and Tess's family, because when my little brother destroys something that I have worked on for a long time,my mom just says thet he is just a baby,and he doesn't know better.

This Book is about a girl named Tess who is having trouble with her dad and stepfamily. When a school project is wrecked by a family member and nobody cares Tess states that she can ni longer take and decides to live full-time with her mother. As Tess runs away she meets a black and striped cat who follows her her for the rest of her journey to the far away destinantion.
I think others should read this book because it is very descriptive. I also think others should read this book because many people can relate to the characters such as the main character Tess. This is a great book and everyone should read it.

For a year Tess has been trying to adjust to life with her father and new stepfamily. Being the oldest, Tess finds her younger step-siblings to be somewhat of a bother especially after three-year old Annie destroys a social studies project. Angered when no one seems to care, Tess begins a two-day hike across Tucson to live with her mother. On the way, Tess befriends a stray cat who, like Tess, seems to have no place to call home. Unfortunately, Tess's mother will not allow her to keep the cat, so Tess asks her friend Ria to take in the cat and allow her to visit. With her mother's work schedule and social life, Tess finds life at her mothers lonelier than she had expected, and though independent and self-sufficient, Tess isn't quite prepared to stay alone while her mother is away on a week long business trip.
Many young readers of Adler's The No Place Cat will certainly relate to Tess's struggle to find her place in a newly formed stepfamily as well as the emotional pull Tess experiences as a child of parents with joint custody. While the topics-divorce, custody debates, stepfamilies, and dating parents-are all covered realistically, the dialogue is often contrived. In addition, few young readers will likely understand the symbolism between Tess's attempt to share the cat and her parent's struggle to share her. The No Place Cat would likely appeal to upper elementary school children and up.

Tess continues to find her new stepfamily stressful despite a year of living with them, so when her young stepsister accidentally destroys a school project, Tess decides to run away and live with her less responsible mother. A cat becomes her only companion on the journey home and when Tess must make some final decisions on where she's to live, the cat factors in unexpectedly in this story of self-discovery.