Cat Girl's Day Off

Reading Level: Grades 7-9

The Ng family has a lot of status.  Everyone in the family has at least one A or B level Talent (as rated by BERM - the Bureau of Extra-Sensory Regulation and Management.)  Everyone except Natalie, the family disappointment.  She has one D level Talent...she speaks and understands cat.  Natalie does her best to keep classmates from learning of her embarrassing talent, only using it to talk to the family cat in the privacy of her bedroom.

And that's how things remain until the day her friends Oscar and Melly shows her a video of a celebrity blogger being attacked by her own cat.  The cat is screaming, " Help me!  Hellllpppme!  Kill the imposter!"

Against her better judgement, Natalie allows her star-struck friends to drag her into a mystery that involves Chicago, a remake of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and one very cranky pink cat.

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Books by Kimberly Pauley

Other humorous fantasy novels featuring harried heroines include:

Fairy Bad Day by Amanda Ashby

Don't Expect Magic by Kathy McCullough and

Devilish by Maureen Johnson

Other stories of humans who can talk to animals include:

What the Dog Said by Randi Reisfeld

The Exceptionals by Erin Cashman

The Boy Who Spoke Dog by Morgan Clay and

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce