Shelve under C

Used bookshops often have cats roaming their aisles, sleeping on their book stacks or sleeping on their customers. Here is a novel all about one bookshop and its cats, Stomper and Buglit; and about Kris, a 12-year-old boy who apprentices in the shop. Kris is a foster child getting used to a new family, and the cats in the bookshop are getting used to being fostered for the shelter until their own new families bring them home. Stomper, Buglit and Kris all get into trouble, have some...
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Used bookshops often have cats roaming their aisles, sleeping on their book stacks or sleeping on their customers. Here is a novel all about one bookshop and its cats, Stomper and Buglit; and about Kris, a 12-year-old boy who apprentices in the shop. Kris is a foster child getting used to a new family, and the cats in the bookshop are getting used to being fostered for the shelter until their own new families bring them home. Stomper, Buglit and Kris all get into trouble, have some wild adventures, and find out just what having a family really means. This is the first book in the Turning Pages series of used bookshop novels. Book 2, The Find of a Lifetime: Another Tale of Used Books and Cats, is now available. Shelve Under C's cozy used & rare bookshop, its owners the O'Malleys, its apprentice, its customers and, especially, its cats are the beating heart of this novel. The main stars of the story are Stomper and Buglit. Well, that's what they would tell you, anyway. Stomper is a grump, but he may be hiding a tender middle. Buglit was new to the bookshop. She missed her former owner, but Mrs. O'Malley made her life less lonesome and Buglit, in return, became very important to the bookshop owners in some funny and surprising ways. Kris tried hard to fit into his new foster family, but even after several months he still felt like an outsider. After he became an apprentice at the bookshop he gradually found a way to fit back into his own world as well as into his foster family's. Shelve Under C is witty without being sappy, and "as comfortable as a warm blanket on a cold night." It has wild storms, doggy bucking broncos, catnip capers, near-deadly chicken salad sandwiches, and . . . books! No need to knock -- the door is open. So come on in, grab something to read, and get comfy on the big, red sofa.