Kathi Appelt

A girl celebrates her own individuality, from her freckles to her wiggles.

Max the cat attacks fish, curtains, socks, and strings, but how many things can he actually catch?

The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble.