Tails of the Bronx: A Tale of the Bronx

by Jill Pinkwater

Book Overview

In their search for a group of missing cats, a group of children in the Bronx encounters the problems of homelessness firsthand. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0027746526
• ISBN13: 9780027746525
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 5.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

If you like N.Y. fiction...

you should read this book! I love N.Y. stuff,(Newsies got me hooked) so I thought I'd read this book. It turned out to be a worthwhile book to read! So, If you want to know where the cats went... READ IT!

Pleasantly Surprised

I had to read this book for school and most books for school bore me out of my mind. But I liked this book. I liked how there was a mystery, and how they finally treated that Rochelle girl how she should've been treated. But most of all, I liked how it had a different viewpoint. Living in a Suburb, I don't know too much about being homeless. Most writers from those kind of areas hardly ever even get or let alone want to write about the Bronx. But when you write it for children, it's a different experience altogether. It didn't badmouth homeless people, it just helped you understand what it's like to be one, how hard it is, it changed my perspective entirely. But there was a problem. No, not in the book, but in the fact that only 2 out of 15 kids in my class, finished it, or really read it. Read this book, you'll definetely like it.

A 'Tail' of Diversity

Even the obnoxious Rochelle has her contribution to make to this lively story.