The Cat I Never Named

Title: The Cat I Never Named
Book List: #mystories: Teen Nonfiction Stories of and about Diverse Cultures, Interesting Nonfiction & Biographies for Teens
Published by: Bloomsbury
Author: Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Genre: Teen
Pages: 384
ISBN13: 9781547604531

The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive the Bosnian genocide--and the stray cat who protected her family through it all.

Amra was a teen in Bihac, Bosnia, when her friend said they couldn’t speak anymore because Amra was Muslim. Then refugees from other cities started arriving, fleeing Serbian persecution. When Serbian tanks rolled into Bihac, the life she knew disappeared—right as a stray cat followed her home. Her family didn’t have the money to keep a pet, but after the cat seemed to save her brother, how could they turn it away? Saving a life one time could be a coincidence, but then it happened again—and Amra and her family wondered just what this cat was.

This is the story of a teen who, even in the brutality of war, never wavered in her determination to obtain education, maintain friendships, and even find a first love—and the cat that provided comfort, and maybe even served as a guardian spirit, in the darkest of times.

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