Books like Kaspar the Titanic cat by Michael Morpurgo
Fourteen-year-old Johnny Trott, a bell-boy at London's Savoy Hotel in 1912, becomes caregiver to Kaspar Kandinsky, the Prince of Cats, and soon the two are stowing away on the Titanic, where they are befriended by the Stanton family of New York.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Michael Morpurgo
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