The Year of the Buttered Cat

By Susan Haas, Lexi Haas

A teen faces surgery and a mystery to reclaim her voice and body.

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320 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Lexi Haas, a superhero-loving teen, is on the brink of a life-changing surgery that could restore her voice and mobility. As the clock ticks down, she recounts a pivotal year marked by a missing cat, a mysterious letter, and vanishing friends. With her world closing in, Lexi embarks on a daring quest to uncover the truth about her past and redefine her future. Will she find the answers she seeks before time runs out?

From the publisher

“We call people who run crazy fast and jump extra high superhuman. Where does that leave me?” Thirteen years ago, when she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi Haas. Something criminal. It left her with an out-of-control body and without a voice. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed teen, Lexi is counting down the final 24 hours to a risky brain surgery that might help her talk or–dare she dream it?–to walk and use her hands. As surgery grows closer, Lexi finds an urgent, relentless need to share the story of the year in her life she calls The Year of the Buttered Cat. That year, on the verge of shutting out the rest of the world, Lexi began a gutsy and solitary quest to find her “missing” body. After the family cat went missing, too, and a mysterious letter appeared, Lexi reluctantly enlisted two budding friends to aid her search. But when these friends also disappeared, Lexi had to learn new ways to reach out to the world to save her friendships and uncover the truth about what happened to her as a baby. The Year of the Buttered Cat is based on the real-life story of Lexi Haas. In the spirit of Wonder by R.J. Palacio and Out of

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