Trim Helps Out (Adventures of Trim)

by Deborah Hopkinson (Author) Kristy Caldwell (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

One small kitten learns about the great big world as he sets sail with his fellow shipmates, animal and human, in this historical fiction intermediate reader.

Trim is eager to do a good job on his first day as ship's cat--but what is his job? All around him, members of the crew are busy with their responsibilities--too busy to notice a small kitten looking for an opportunity to contribute. Jack the parrot directs Trim to the hold, to patrol for rats.

But Jack neglects to tell Trim exactly what a rat is. Surely Princess Bea, the new friend he meets below deck, isn't a rat. She doesn't resemble the creepy, scary-looking creature that Jack warned Trim about and she's happy to have an assistant to fetch her biscuits from the galley.

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Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson is the award-winning author of more than seventy nonfiction and historical fiction books. Her writing and programs help bring history and research to life for readers. She holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts and the University of Hawaii and lives in Oregon with her family and a menagerie of pets.

Kristy Caldwell is an illustrator from Louisiana, based in Brooklyn. Her first picture book, Flowers for Sarajevo, was a Kirkus Best Picture Book of 2017. She also has a history of providing graphic art to theater companies and is married to director Kelly O'Donnell.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781682632918
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc.
Publication date
October 24, 2023
Series
Adventures of Trim
BISAC categories
JUV002050 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Cats
JUV044000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Intermediate
JUV041020 - Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Boats, Ships, & Underwater Craft
Library of Congress categories
Cats
Friendship
Animals
Animal fiction
Sailing ships

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