Carlotta's Kittens
Subtitle: And the Club of Mysteries
Contributors: Alan Daniel (Illustrator)
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780689834592
Subjects: Humorous Stories; Children: Grades 4-6; Cats; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories; Fiction; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Cats; Animals - Cats; Adventure and adventurers
First sentence: When the air was cold, and the sky was gray, and the wind blew its frosty breath through every crack and crevice, Marco and Polo thought of Carlotta. 
Table of contents: title: Carlotta's Kittens have arrived -- five adorable pink-nosed, silk-eared bundles of fur. But what a responsibility for the five male cats in the Club of Mysteries! It's their job not only to protect the kittens from the dangers of the world -- like the tough river rats and the even tougher Steak Knife and his gang (and his collection of the tails of his victims) -- but also to teach them the skills every cat needs to survive. And hardest of all, to find them good homes before they end up at the dreaded pound. The Club of Mysteries gang has a hard enough time figuring out the ways of the world for themselves -- how can they raise a litter of helpless kittens?