↳ RAISE THE FUTURE
Crenshaw
by Katherine Applegate
His family is losing their home again. His imaginary cat has opinions.
For you if
you have carried something too big for a kid to carry and needed something imaginary to help you hold it
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Jackson's family is about to be homeless again — he's been there before, he knows the signs. His parents are pretending everything is fine. And Crenshaw has appeared — a large imaginary cat who sits on the kitchen counter and says uncomfortable things. Applegate writes about childhood poverty with extraordinary honesty: the shame of it, the specific logistics of it, the way children carry adult problems in their bodies while the adults pretend the children can't see. Crenshaw is the imagination that gets Jackson through. The most honest middle grade novel about housing insecurity ever written.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
- Themes
- Witness
