# Picture Purrfect (Bodega Cats #1)

**Author:** Hilda Eunice Burgos
**Grade range:** Grades 2–5
**Age range:** 7–11
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 125
**Genre:** Early Chapter Book
**ISBN-13:** `9781250903730`
**ISBN-10:** `1250903734`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/picture-purrfect-bodega-cats
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In the first Bodega Cats book, a young girl helps out at her family's New York City bodega — where a cat keeps things interesting. Hilda Eunice Burgos opens a warm, illustrated chapter-book series about family, community, and neighborhood life. Selected for the 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (grades 3-5), chosen each year by the Oklahoma Library Association.

## Themes

- family
- community
- animals

## Where this book is assigned

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)

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