Mrs. Katz and Tush

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African- American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail..

Author: Patricia Polacco
Illustrator: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Bantam

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Abiyoyo Abuela The Adventures of Taxi Dog Albert the Running Bear's Exercise Book Alejandro's Gift Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Alistair in Outer Space Alistair Time Machine All About Whales Alligator Shoes All Those Secrets of the World Aloha, Dolores Alvin Ailey Always My Dad The Always Prayer Shawl Amazing Grace Amazing Bats	The Amazing Bone Amazon Diary: The Jungle Adventure of Alex Winters Amelia's Fantastic Flight Amy: the Story of a Deaf Child And Still the Turtle Watched Angel Child, Dragon Child Angelina On Stage Animal Cafe Anno's Journey Ant Cities Appelmando's Dream Apt. 3 Archibald Frisby The Art Lesson Astronauts: Space Jokes and Riddles Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery Ayu and the Perfect Moon


Baby Animals on the Farm Badger's Parting Gift Backyard Insects The Banza Barn Dance! Bea and Mr. Jones Beegu Begin at the Beginning Being Adopted Ben's Trumpet Berlioz the Bear Best Friends Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook Better Homes And Gardens Step-By-Step Kids' Cookbook Beverly Billingsly Takes A Bow The Bicycle Man The Big Balloon Race Big City Port	The Big Hello The Biggest Test In the Universe Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile The Bionic Bunny Show A Bird about to Sing Bird Watch Bored-Nothing To Do! Born in the Gravy Borreguita and the Coyote Bossyboots Boundless Grace Boxes for Katje The Brand New Kid Bread, Bread, Bread Bread is for Eating Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain Brush Bugs Busy, Busy Squirrels


Hail to Mail Half a Moon and One Whole Star Halmoni and the Picnic The Handmade Alphabet Hand Rhymes Harlequin and the Gift of Many Colors Harriet's Recital Harry and Lulu Hector, the Accordion-nosed Dog Helping Out Here is the Coral Reef Hey Little Ant Hide and Seek Hill of Fire Hip Cat The Hippopotamus Song: A Muddy Love Story Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Distinguished Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books to Aid the Homeless	The Homeless Hibernating Bear Honey, I love and Other Love Poems Horace Hooray for Snail! Hot-Air Henry Hotel Animal The House That Jack Built How a Book is Made How Many Stars in the Sky How Much is a Million? How My Parents Learned To Eat How Tall, How Short, How Far Away How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty How to Hide an Octopus & Other Sea Creatures How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story


I am an Artist I Can Be an Archaeologist I Can be an Oceanographer I Got Community I Have a Friend I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf I Like the Music I Lost My Tooth in Africa I Made it Myself I Read Signs I Want a Dog I Wonder Why Soap Makes Bubbles: And Other Questions About Science If a Bus Could Talk: the Story of Rosa Parks If At First You Do Not See If You Are A Hunter of Fossils	If You Give a Mouse a Cookie If You Take a Pencil I'm Flying! I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem I'm Going to Be a... I'm New Here Imogene's Antlers The Incredible Painting of Felix Cloussea Introduction to Musical Instruments Series: Brass/Percussion/Strings/Woodwinds Ira Sleeps Over The Island of the Skog Is This a House for Hermit Crab? Is There Life in Outer Space?


Jack, the Seal and the Sea Jafta Jamaica's Find Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book	The Jolly Postman Jumanji June 29, 1999 Just Us Women


Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express Kwanzaa Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie	The Kids Around the World Cookbook The Kids’ Family Tree Book Knots on a Counting Rope


The Lady and the Spider The Lady With the Ship on Her Head The Lady In The Box Ladybug The Legend of the Bluebonnet The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush Legend of the Milky Way Lemonade For Sale Lenses! Take a Closer Look Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants Let's Talk About When Your Parent Is In Jail The Letter Jesters Liang and the Magic Paintbrush The Librarian of Basra: A True Story From Iraq The Life Cycle of the Honeybee The Life Cycle of the Whale	Lights, Camera, Action! How a Movie is Made Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year The Little Engine That Could Little Nino's Pizzeria The Little Painter of Sabana Grande The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Gray Bridge A Living Desert The Long Silk Strand: A Grandmother's Legacy to Her Granddaughter The Long Way to a New Land The Lotus Seed Loudmouth George and the Sixth-grade Bully Louis the Fish Luba: The Angel Of Bergen-Belsen Ludlow Laughs LuLu's Lemonade


Madlenka Maebelle's Suitcase The Magic Wings: A Tale from China The Make me Laugh! Joke Books (series) Make Way for Ducklings Making Musical Things Making the Team Mama Bear Mama Don't Allow Mama Loves Me from Away Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice Manatees The Many Lives of Benjamin Mapping Penny's World Maps and Globes Martha Speaks Math Cure Max Me and Neesie Me on the Map Meanwhile Back at the Ranch A Medieval Feast Messages in the Mailbox: How to Write a Letter The Microscope The Milk Makers Miranda Mirette on the High Wire Miss Nelson has a Field Day Miss Nelson is Back Mitchell is Moving The Mitten Tree	Mr. George Baker Mr. Tall and Mr. Small Mrs. Huggins and Her Hen Hannah Mrs. Katz and Tush Mrs. Pig's Bulk Buy Mole Music Molly's Pilgrim Moog-Moog Space Barber The Moon Moondogs Moonsong Lullaby Moon Tiger Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw The Mud Pony Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Mummies Made in Egypt The Music in Derrick's Heart Music Music for Everyone My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States My First Cookbook My First Green Book: A Life-size guide to caring for the environment My First Nature Book My Grandson Lew My Life With the Wave My Little Island My Mama Had a Dancing Heart My Mama Needs Me My Puppy is Born My Shadow Mystery on the Docks My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Fall Out


Pablo Picasso The Paper Crane Paper Through the Ages The Patchwork Quilt Paul Bunyan A Peddler's Dream People in the Rainforest Perfect Crane Perfect the Pig The Perfect Spot Pet Show! Pet Stories: You Don't Have to Walk Peter and the Wolf Peter's Chair The Philharmonic Gets Dressed A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman Pie in the Sky	The Piggy in the Puddle Pig Pig Gets a Job Pig William Pigs On a Blanket: Fun With Math and Time Pipsqueeks! Maze School The Pirate Cook Book Plane Song Planets: A Solar System Stickerbook Poem Stew Poinsettia and Her Family The Polar Express The Popcorn Book The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy The Purple Coat Puss In Boots


Sailing With the Wind The Salamander Room Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt Sam the Sea Cow Saturday Sancocho The Science Book of Sound Science Magic (Series) The Scrambled States of America The Seashore Book Seashore Surprises The Secret Shortcut Seven Brave Women Shake it to the One That You Love the Best: Play Songs and Lullabies From Black Musical Traditions Shake my Sillies Out Shadows and Reflections Shadowgraphs Anyone Can Make The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest Shoes Show Way The Signmaker's Assistant The Sign Painter's Dream Silent Lotus Simon's Book The Sleeping Beauty Sleep Is For Everyone Smart Dog Snakes are Hunters The Snowy Day	Snowy Day Poems: Stories and Poems Soccer Sam Someplace Else Somewhere in the World Right Now Sophie and Lou Sosu's Call Space Case Space Exploration Spider's Web Sports Pages The Star-Spangled Banner Stay Away from the Junkyard! Stefan & Olga Stellaluna Step Into the Night Sterling: The Rescue of a Baby Harbor Seal Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Storms A Story A Story The Story About Ping The Story of a Castle The Story of Ferdinand The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea Suho and the White Horse Summer Sunken Treasure Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt


10 Things I Know About The 13th Clue The Talking Eggs The Tamarindo Puppy and Other Books Tar Beach Taxi: A Book of City Words Taxi! Taxi! Teddy Bears Cure a Cold The Tenth Good Thing About Barney The Terrible Thing that Happened at Our House The Three Bears There's a Nightmare in my Closet The Tin Forest Thirteen Moons on Turtle's This House is Made of Mud This is the Key to the Kingdom Three by the Sea Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe A Three Hat Day The Three Little Javelinas Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies Tiger Tillie and the Wall	Time Train Tin Lizzie and Little Nell The Titanic: Lost... And Found Today We Are Brother and Sister The Tortoise and the Hare Tooth-Gnasher Superflash The Tortilla Factory Tornado Alert To Sleep Town Mouse, Country Mouse The Train to Lulu's The Tree in the Wood Tree Trunk Traffic The Trek The Tremendous Tree Book Truck Song Tulip Sees America Turtle and Tortoise Turtle in July Twelve Snails to One Lizard Two Old Potatoes and Me The Two of Them Ty's One Man Band


The Ugly Duckling Uncle Jed's Barbershop Uncle Nacho's Hat Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen	Unique Monique Up and Down on the Merry-Go-Round Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City


Very Last First Time The Viking Children's World Atlas	Visiting Day Visiting the Art Museum


Wagon Wheels The Wall Walter the Baker Watch the Stars Come Out Water Dance Water, Water Everywhere Water: What It Is, What It Does Weather Welcome to the Green House Wemberly Worried Weslandia Whale in the Sky Whales and Other Sea Mammals Whalewatch! What A Family! What Does It Do? Inventions Then and Now What Food is This? What Happens to a Hamburger What It's Like To Be A... Newspaper Reporter What the Mailman Brought What Makes Popcorn Pop? And Other Questions About the World Around Us	What's inside? Shells What's in the Deep? An Underwater Adventure for Children What's Under My Bed? When Aunt Lena Did the Rhumba When I was Young in the Mountains When Panda Came to Our House Where the Wild Things Are The White Bicycle Who's in Rabbits House? Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Willie Jerome Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species Winter A Winter Place The Wonderful Happens The Wonderful Tower of Watts Work Worksong Worlds to Explore: Handbook for Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts The Wreck of the Zephyr


Yagua Days


Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin Zoom	Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree


A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns Cactus Caps for Sale The Carousel The Car Washing Street Casey at the Bat Cat & Canary Celebrate the Fifty States A Chair for My Mother Changes Charlie Parker Played Be Bop Check it Out! The Book About Libraries	Chickens Aren't the Only One Chipmunk Song The Cloud Book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Come a Tide Come Away From the Water, Shirley Commander Toad (series) Conga Crocodile Cordelia, Dance! "Could Be Worse!" Coyote Dreams Creatures of the Sea Crictor


Dabble Duck Daddy is a Monster... Sometimes Daffodil Dakota Dugout The Dancing Man Dancing with the Indians Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies A Day in the Life of a Marine Biologist The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash A Day's Work A Day Underwater Delphine The Desert Alphabet Book	Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus Diary of a Worm Diego Digging Up Dinosaurs Dinosaurs! A Drawing Book Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo Dinosaur Time Dive to the Coral Reefs Don't Laugh at Me The Dream Eater Duncan and Delores


Earth Hounds, as Explained by Professor Xargle Easy-to-Make Spaceships That Really Fly Eats: Poems Ed Emberley's Three Science Flip Books The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day Egg-Carton Zoo	Egg to Chicken Emma Emma's Dragon Hunt An Enchanted Hair Tale Enemy Pie Everett Anderson's Goodbye


Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers, a Collection of Family Poems Feelings Fill It Up! All About Service Stations Finding The Right Spot: When Kids Can't Live with Their Parents Find Waldo Now Fireflies! The First Dog A Fish Hatches	Flight The Flyaway Pantaloons Fly Away Home Flying Free to be... a Family: a Book About All Kinds of Belonging Frog and Toad Together Fox on the Job Frogs, Toads, Lizards and Salamanders From Blossom to Honey The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper


Galimoto Game Day The Garden of Abdul Gasazi George Shrinks Georgia Music Germs Make Me Sick! The Gift of the Sacred Dog A Gift For Abuelita: Celebrating the Day of the Dead A Gift for Tia Rosa Gila Monters Meet You at the Airport Giving Thanks: A Good Morning American Message The Goat in the Rug	The Granddad Tree Grandfather Counts Grandfather's Journey Grandmama's Joy Great Newspaper Crafts Great Women in the Struggle Gregory, the Terrible Eater Growing Vegetable Soup Going Buggy! Jokes About Insects The Great Kapok Tree: a Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest Guess What?


The Name Jar Nate the Great Goes Undercover Nature All Year Long Native American Series : The Indians Neale S. Godfrey's Ultimate Kids' Money Book Newspapers	Nicholas Bentley Stoningpot III The Night I Followed the Dog Night Markets: Bringing Food to a City Night on Neighborhood Street Nosey Mrs. Rat


Oink The Old Banjo The Old Man Who Loved to Sing Old Turtle's Baseball Stories One Hundred Hungry Ants One Monday Morning On Grandma's Roof On That Day Only One	Opt an Illusionary Tale Our Teacher's in a Wheelchair Once There Was a Tree Our Wet World Over the River and Through the Wood Owen Owl Moon Ox-Cart Man


Raccoons and Ripe Corn Rain Rainbow Crow Ramona: Behind the Scenes of a Television Show The Reason for a Flower Rechenka's Eggs Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Redbird Regards to the Man in the Moon Regina's Big Mistake	Rise the Moon Rites of Passage: Coming of Age A River Ran Wild The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner Rodeo Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat Roses Sing on New Snow: A Delicious Tale Round Trip The Runaway Duck Ruth Law Thrills a Nation