失落猫之城 The City of Lost Cats

基本信息

Format:Hardback 288 pages

Publisher:Tundra Books

Imprint:Tundra Books

ISBN:9781774882108

Published:4 Mar 2025

Dimensions:209 x 139 (mm)

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书籍简介

一个名叫菲奥娜的固执的小女孩偶然发现了一栋满是流浪猫的废弃房屋，而此时，这栋房屋正受到拆迁队、领导危机和两只可能怀有恶意的长尾小鹦鹉的威胁。菲奥娜能拯救这栋房子和里面的所有居民吗？这是一部广受好评的作家 Tanya Lloyd Kyi 的新中年级小说。

当菲奥娜漫步到港口附近的一栋废弃豪宅时，她发现房子里满是流浪猫（还有两只混乱的长尾小鹦鹉）。菲奥娜对这些动物深表同情；她明白需要一个安全的家是什么感觉。自从父母去世后，她一直在努力适应她和姑姑 Tanis 现在住的小公寓。而姑姑 Tanis 几乎没有时间陪菲奥娜，因为她在市政厅工作，还有她那可怕的、涂着发胶的男朋友。

当这栋豪宅受到拆迁队的威胁时，菲奥娜决心拯救“这座城市”及其居民。但猫咪们有自己的优先事项。科特（Cot，Cottonball Fluffikins Magnificent III 的缩写，他拒绝承认这个名字）在这座豪宅里住了两年，自封为王。他确信拆迁工作是由新来的长尾小鹦鹉组织的。那些鸟必须走！

科特的猫科动物对手派珀确信，只要菲奥娜不挡她的路，她就能吓倒拆迁队并迫使他们离开。而长尾小鹦鹉……好吧，长尾小鹦鹉只想回家。

当拆迁队开始拆除隔壁的房子时，菲奥娜寻求她能找到的任何帮助——在图书馆、肉店，甚至市政厅。一个小女孩和一群动物的努力能阻止豪华公寓的开发吗？他们能创造出更好的东西来代替它吗？

菲奥娜需要一些快速的思考，更不用说所有猫的合作，才能给这座城市一个未来。

A stubborn young girl named Fiona stumbles upon an abandoned house full of stray cats, just as it is threatened by a demolition team, a leadership crisis, and two potentially malicious parakeets. Can Fiona save the house and all its inhabitants? A new middle-grade novel by critically acclaimed author Tanya Lloyd Kyi.

When Fiona wanders into an abandoned mansion down by the harbor, she discovers the house is full of stray cats (and two chaotic parakeets). Fiona feels a great deal of sympathy for the animals; she understands what it's like to need a safe home. Ever since her parents died, she's been struggling to adjust to the tiny apartment where she and her Aunt Tanis now live. And Aunt Tanis has little time to spare for Fiona, between her job at The Municipal Hall and her horrible, hair-gelled boyfriend.

When the mansion is threatened by a demolition team, Fiona is determined to save "The City" and its residents. But the cats have their own priorities. Cot (short for Cottonball Fluffikins Magnificent III, a name he refuses to acknowledge) has lived in the mansion for two years and is the self-proclaimed king. He's convinced the demolition effort has been organized by the recently arrived parakeets. Those birds have got to go!

Cot's feline rival, Piper, is sure she can intimidate the demolition team and force them to leave, if Fiona will simply stay out of her way. And the parakeets . . . well, the parakeets just want to go home.

As the demolition team begins tearing down the house next door, Fiona looks for any help she can find — at the library, the butcher shop, and even at The Municipal Hall. Can the efforts of one small girl and an assortment of animals stop a luxury condo development? Can they create something better in its place?

It's going to take some quick thinking on the part of Fiona, not to mention the cooperation of all the cats, to give The City a future.

作者简介

TANYA LLOYD KYI 是 30 多本儿童和青少年读物的作者。她和一只浣熊大小的玳瑁猫一起长大，这只猫名叫 D.C.（Darn Cat 的缩写），在城市里，它就像家一样。Tanya 过去曾做过平面设计师、编辑和洗碗工。（她认为自己完全有资格做的一个工作。）她喜欢的颜色是蓝色，喜欢的食物是奶酪，喜欢的书是《时间的皱纹》。当她不讲猫的故事时，Tanya 就在不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华的 UBC 创意写作学院任教。

TANYA LLOYD KYI is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults. She grew up with a racoon-sized tortoiseshell cat named D.C. (for Darn Cat), who would have felt right at home in The City. Tanya has worked in the past as a graphic designer, an editor and a dishwasher. (She considers herself entirely qualified for that last one.) Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is cheese and her favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time. When she's not telling cat tales, Tanya teaches at the UBC School of Creative Writing in Vancouver, BC.