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The Year of the Buttered Cat: A Mostly True Story

When she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi. It left her with cerebral palsy, resulting in an out-of-control body and an inability to speak. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed thirteen-year-old, Lexi is counting down the final 24 hours to a risky brain surgery that might help her talk or — dare she dream it? — to walk and use her hands.

As surgery grows closer, Lexi finds an urgent, relentless need to share the story of the year in her life she calls The Year of the Buttered Cat. That year, on the verge of shutting out the rest of the world, Lexi began a gutsy and solitary quest to find her "missing" body… and she learns new ways to reach out to the world to save her friendships and uncover the startling truth about what happened to her as a baby. In the spirit of Wonder and Out of My Mind, here is a riveting memoir, complete with 30 full color photos and discussion questions, that offers empowering messages of friendship, family, and the art of redefining ourselves.

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"[Lexi is] incredibly bright: reading young and starting to learn French at 5. She starts off communicating by moving magnetic refrigerator letters on a cookie sheet and experiments with different assistive technology communication devices.... Her mother’s voice rarely dominates; her mother’s concern about the possible malpractice that led to Lexi’s brain injury seems of little interest to Lexi herself. It’s important that Lexi is a real, funny, smart, geeky kid." — Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

Recommended Age 10 - 13
Author Susan Haas, Lexi Haas
ISBN 0316575445
Publication Date May 14, 2024
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language English