Crenshaw

Crenshaw
Katherine Applegate

The heart-warming new story about family and friendships from Newbery Medal-winner Katherine Applegate.Life is tough for ten-year-old Jackson. The landlord is often at the door, there’s not much food in the fridge and he’s worried that any day now the family will have to move out of their home. Again.Crenshaw is a cat. He’s large, he’s outspoken and he’s imaginary. He’s come back into Jackson’s life to help him but is an imaginary friend enough to save this family from losing everything?A heart-warming story about family and friendships from Newbery medal winner Katherine Applegate.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2015

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Originally published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan. Published by arrangement with Pippin Properties Inc. through Rights People, London.

Copyright © 2015 by Katherine Applegate

Harvey. Mary Chase. Copyright © 1944 by Mary Chase. Copyright © renewed, 1971, by Mary Chase. Reprinted with permission.

Cover illustration © Erwin Madrid

Cover design by Rachel Deas and Liz Dresner

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Source ISBN: 9780007951185

Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780008164515

Version: 2015-10-27

for Jake

Dr Sanderson:

“Think carefully, Dowd. Didn’t you know somebody, sometime, someplace by the name of Harvey? Didn’t you ever know anybody by that name?”

Elwood P. Dowd:

“No, no, not one, Doctor, Maybe that’s why I always had such hopes for it.”

—MARY CHASE, Harvey (1944)

Contents

Cover (#uf431ae05-65bc-53b2-8508-54d8adeff3cd)

Title Page (#u0b09461b-ea83-5449-bab9-0dd4ecb62c0e)

Copyright

Dedication (#u45787017-7040-5613-82c9-462b47026c5a)

Epigraph (#u616a57b6-0da3-5b0c-b964-4b68d880a22c)

Part One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15