2001, Albert Whitman Co.
Only available new, in paper, $6.99
32 pgs.
Goodreads rating:3.58 - 65 ratings
My rating: 4
Endpapers: an illustration: the walled city, with a golden-domed building on the other side of the wall
Illustrations cover both pages, and the text is on top of the illustration, no white edges!
1st line/s: "In the walled old city of Jerusalem, which some call the Center of the Universe, Avi waited."
My comments: I didn't realize there are four ethnic/cultural sections in Jerusalem - Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Armenian. In this story, two boys from different cultures - Jewish and Muslim - find common ground because of a stray cat who "befriends" them both.
Goodreads: Avi and Hamudi are two boys who live in Jerusalem's Old City -- Avi in the Jewish Quarter and Hamudi in the Muslim Quarter. To each boy, the other's neighborhood is an alien land. And although neither boy knows it, both are caring for the same beautiful white stray cat.One day the boys follow the cat as she travels the winding streets and crosses the boundaries between the city's quarters. And on this journey something wonderful happens, as unexpected as a snowfall in Jerusalem.
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