Sue Welford

Interesting Y/A fantasy with a kick-ass female protagonist who learns to relate to nature and to other sentient species after a varied upbringing partly in the totally urbanised earth where fighting is common, but also with the wider perspective of other places/people from planet hopping with her parents. Her family settle on a watery planet when her mum takes a job at a refinery, but political chicanery soon rears its ugly head.

Strong female roles generally with her mum the engineer and dad show more the house husband. Also some good interaction between the teenage characters who have some complexity/depth, and lyric description of the sea, landscape and alien 'mermaid' characters. show less

Quick Review:

Kitten Crowd is an adorable middle grade novel about rescuing animals. Young animal lovers will absolutely love this book about the super sweet kittens that need to find a home! The book is simple to read and great for nine to twelve year olds. I would highly recommend picking this book up for middle grade readers searching for something fun and light to read!

Three out of five stars.

Mandy loves animals. Her parents are vets. Her grandparents are pet sitting a hamster and they have no clue what to do. So Mandy goes over to help out because she knows everything about hamsters. Except how to find them when they get out!

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