Eleven-year-old Duncan McKay uses his ability to communicate with his companions Fia, a kitten, and Brig, a tiger, to aid him on a journey to claim his rightful place as heir to his island kingdom. Duncan is enlisted to serve a crew of pirates and sent to the far edges of his kingdom in the course of his adventurous quest.
year: 2015
call number/section: 1000
subjects: juvenile fiction / family / parents, juvenile fiction / animals / cats, juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general, mothers and sons, fiction, ability, identity (philosophical concept), identity, cats, adventure and adventurers, fantasy, identity (psychology), mother-son relationship, adventure fiction, fantasy fiction
Editions
Jonell, Lynne
Henry Holt and Co. (2015)
Duncan, eleven, is very smart with the rare ability to speak Cat, but his mother has always insisted he appear only average, and when a perfect test score draws attention to him, he not only discovers the wisdom of his mother's rules, he finds himself crossing the seas on a quest for his true identity.
Schools: 28
Jonell, Lynne
Eleven-year-old Duncan McKay uses his ability to communicate with his companions Fia, a kitten, and Brig, a tiger, to aid him on a journey to claim his rightful place as heir to his island kingdom. Duncan is enlisted to serve a crew of pirates and sent to the far edges of his kingdom in the course of his adventurous quest.
Schools: 0