Katherine Applegate - Crenshaw

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2015

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Copyright © 2015 by Katherine Applegate

Harvey . Mary Chase. Copyright © 1944 by Mary Chase. Copyright © renewed, 1971, by Mary Chase. Reprinted with permission.

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Cover design by Rachel Deas and Liz Dresner

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Source ISBN: 9780007951185

Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780008164515

Version: 2015-10-27

for Jake

Dr Sanderson:

“Think carefully, Dowd. Didn’t you know somebody, sometime, someplace by the name of Harvey? Didn’t you ever know anybody by that name?”

Elwood P. Dowd:

“No, no, not one, Doctor, Maybe that’s why I always had such hopes for it.”

—MARY CHASE, Harvey (1944)

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication for Jake

Epigraph Dr Sanderson: “Think carefully, Dowd. Didn’t you know somebody, sometime, someplace by the name of Harvey? Didn’t you ever know anybody by that name?” Elwood P. Dowd: “No, no, not one, Doctor, Maybe that’s why I always had such hopes for it.” —MARY CHASE, Harvey (1944)

Part One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Part Two

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Part Three

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Have you read?

Acknowledgments

Also by Katherine Applegate

About the Publisher

A door is to open

—A HOLE IS TO DIG:

A FIRST BOOK OF FIRST DEFINITIONS,

written by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by Maurice Sendak

I noticed several weird things about the surfboarding cat.

Thing number one: he was a surfboarding cat.

Thing number two: he was wearing a T-shirt. It said CATS RULE, DOGS DROOL.

Thing number three: he was holding a closed umbrella, like he was worried about getting wet. Which, when you think about it, is kind of not the point of surfing.

Thing number four: no one else on the beach seemed to see him.

He’d grabbed a good wave, and his ride was smooth. But as the cat neared shore, he made the mistake of opening his umbrella. A gust of wind yanked him into the sky. He missed a seagull by seconds.

Even the gull didn’t seem to notice him.

The cat floated over me like a furry balloon. I looked straight up. He looked straight down. He waved.

His coat was black and white, penguin style. He looked like he was heading somewhere fancy in a hairy tuxedo.