Pinky and Rex and the Just-Right Pet Ready-to-Read Level 3

by Howe, James; Sweet, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9780689828614
• ISBN10: 0689828616
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight

Summary

Pinky's family has decided that they want to get a pet, but what kind? Pinky wants a dog but he is outvoted three to one in favor of a cat. The decision is sealed during a trip to the supermarket. There, in front of the store, is a girl giving away free kittens and Amanda has chosen one before Pinky is even out of the car.
At home, Pinky's sister Amanda announces, "She's really mine. I was the first one to hold her and that makes me her mother." Pinky doesn't care. He wants a dog. But that's before Patches, as Amanda has named the kitten, sneaks into Pinky's room each night and Pinky finds himself having a change of heart.
In Pinky and Rex and the Just-Right Pet, the twelfth book in the Pinky and Rex series, James Howe once again illuminates a family situation recognizable to all.

Author Biography

James Howe is the author of num-erous books for children, including the popular series about Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit, and his friends Harold, Chester, and Howie. Among his other books are There's a Monster Under My Bed and There's a Dragon in My Sleeping Bag, both illustrated by David S. Rose.

The Pinky and Rex books were inspired in part by a child's question about the author's favorite color (he was wearing a pink shirt that day) and by his friendship with a girl very much like Rex when he was seven.

Table of Contents

The Family Meeting	1	(5)
The Plan	6	(8)
Patches	14	(6)
Pinky's Secret	20	(8)
Gone!	28	(5)
A Pet for Pinky	33