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The Ship's Cat

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 10
Categories: Historical Fiction

Author

Cornelia
Meigs

Appeared in

Story Parade, Rainbow Book: A Collection of Modern Stories for Boys and Girls

Story Summary

When Patty and her grandfather went with young Dan to see him off on his first voyage as a cabin boy on the "Adventure," Patty's kitten, Tiger, unknowingly jumped aboard. When they returned from India, Patty found her brother to be a young man and her kitten to be a fully grown cat who was, none-the-less, very happy to be home and in Patty's lap.