# Crenshaw

**Author:** Katherine Applegate
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2015
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781250080226`
**ISBN-10:** `1250080223`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/crenshaw
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In her first novel since The One and Only Ivan, winner of the Newbery Medal, Katherine Applegate delivers an unforgettable and magical story about family, friendship, and resilience. Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent. And not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again. Crenshaw is a cat. He's large, he's outspoken, and he's imaginary. He has come back into Jackson's life to help him.

## Themes

- homelessness
- imagination
- family

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