Scout the School Cat by Ella Moonheart

Author:Ella Moonheart
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781547604937
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

They bent down to check under cars, and stood on tiptoes to peer over hedges. Mia even climbed onto Jenny’s shoulders to look in the branches of the trees, just in case Scout had scampered up a trunk and hadn’t been able to get down. They almost slipped a couple of times, and Kitty wished she could turn into a cat and leap up there with her strong back legs and sharp claws. Some things were so much easier as a cat!

When they reached the shops in the middle of town, Kitty and Mia popped into the post office to ask if they could stick one of their posters in the window.

“Is that you, Kitty?”

Kitty turned to see a smiling lady in the line to mail a package. “Ms. Babbitt!” she said, recognizing her new teacher.

“It is you! And Mia too! How lovely to see you two spending time together outside school. What are you both up to this morning? You look very busy!”

Kitty explained that they were searching for a lost kitten, and showed Ms. Babbitt the poster. She studied it carefully. “I’ll certainly keep an eye out,” she promised the girls. “I’ll make sure I let the other teachers at school know, too, as the kitten was last seen in the playground. I’m sure she’ll turn up!” She looked thoughtfully at the poster again. “Funny that the town isn’t covered in these! Perhaps the cat’s owner just didn’t have the bright idea to make a poster, unlike you girls.”

Once they headed back outside, Evie was looking anxiously at her watch. “I’m really sorry, but I told my parents we’d only be out for a couple of hours,” she explained. “They said to be back for lunch at one o’clock.”

“That’s okay. We’ll ride back to your house and keep looking on the way,” Jenny told her. “I can’t believe we haven’t spotted any sign of this kitten yet! It feels like we’ve looked everywhere!”

“I’m sorry it’s taken the whole morning,” Kitty said, looking at the others. “I really thought we could find her.”

“We wanted to help!” said Evie.

“That’s what friends are for, right?” added Jenny.

Kitty felt a rush of affection for her friends.

“And even though we didn’t find the kitten, we’ve told lots of people about her, and shown them our posters,” pointed out Mia. “Although . . .”

“What?” asked Kitty, as Mia frowned.

“It’s just something Ms. Babbitt said,” Mia explained. “It got me thinking. She said it was odd that the town wasn’t covered in posters. Well, she’s right, isn’t she?”

“What do you mean?” asked Evie.

“If Scout really is a lost cat, wouldn’t her owners be out searching for her?” said Mia. “And wouldn’t they have put up posters all around town? But it feels like the only people looking for Scout are . . .”

“Us,” finished Kitty, nodding.

Mia was right. Kitty couldn’t believe she hadn’t thought of it before. Why weren’t Scout’s owners out looking for their kitten? Was Scout really a lost kitten—or was something else

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