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The Great Escape

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{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang2057\f0\fs20 It's the summer holidays, and Millie is helping her dad clean windows at the local lab, when a runaway cat hurtles towards her and takes cover in her bag.

He tells her he's escaping from evil scientists and begs her to hide him.

Which she does - though she is, anyway, stunned into silence by the fact that the cat can talk.

Millie smuggles Max home with her and discovers he was kidnapped from his home in Brussels (so not only can he speak, but he's bilingual) and given a voice.

The toy company, Playmatic, have a dastardly plan to create the must-have Christmas toy of the year - talking cats!

Max is one of the prototypes and the lab is determined to get him back.

Unknown to the technicians, though, Max is going back of his own accord - but this time to rescue his friends - especially the gorgeous French tortoiseshell, Celeste\'85\f1\fs18 \par }

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Product Details
Simon & Schuster Children's
1416926054 / 9781416926054
Paperback
823.92
03/09/2007
United States
English
277 p.
20 cm
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