J. T. ** possibly my favorite book ** by Jane Wagner
	List Price:   $6.99 Unit Price:   $5.59 You Save:   $1.40 (20%) ISBN-10:   0440442753 ISBN-13:   9780440442752 Publisher:   Random House [IN]; Yearling Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   July 1972 Pages:   128 Format:   Paperback; Digest format paperback Ages:   8 to 13 Grades:   3 to
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
J. T. Gamble lives in Harlem, and his most prized possessions are a tiny portable radio and a stray cat, for whom he has made a home. To the guys on the block, J.T. is the kid who stole the radio out of the red convertible before they could get to it. His neighbor, Mrs. Morris, declares him a first-class nuisance. His mother is bewildered -- 'He's just gone bad, that's all.... Stealin' and lyin' and I don't know what all.' But all the sensitivity, responsibility, and care of which ten-year-old J.T. Gamble is capable emerges when he finds an old, one-eyed, badly hurt alley cat. J.T. takes on a new dimension as he lavishes all the love he is unable to express to people around him on the battered cat he has found in the junk-filled empty lot.