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    Haven: A Small Cat’s Big Adventure by Megan Wagner Lloyd When her cherished Ma Millie falls ill, a timid housecat ventures into the wild to seek help in this adventure about love, loss, and finding the truest version of ourselves.

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    Haven: A Small Cat’s Big Adventure by Megan Wagner Lloyd When her cherished Ma Millie falls ill, a timid housecat ventures into the wild to seek help in this adventure about love, loss, and finding the truest version of ourselves.

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    HAVEN

    MEGAN WAGNER LLOYD


    When her cherished Ma Millie
    falls ill, a timid housecat ventures
    into the wild to seek help
    in this adventure about love,
    loss, and finding the truest
    version of ourselves.

    A warm, cozy lap. The toasty smell of baking bread. Tasty food served in a On sale August 2, 2022 HC:
    978-1-5362-1657-8$17.99 ($23.99
    bright-blue bowl. These make Haven’s life as an indoor pet heaven. All thanks to CAN)Ages 8–12 • 144 pages
    her beloved human and rescuer, Ma Millie. But when Ma Millie becomes too sick Also available as an e-book
    #Haven
    to care for her, the cat’s cozy life is turned upside down, and Haven decides she
    must seek out another human for help. Anything for Ma Millie! Her vow pulls
    her out of her safe nest into the shadowy forest and down unfamiliar and danger-
    ous roads. When her first plan fails, Haven meets a wilderness-savvy fox who
    volunteers as an ally, and their perilous journey together brings some victories. But
    Haven finds herself pitted against creatures far wilder than she ever could be, test-
    ing her strength and spirit to their limits. Will her loyalty to Ma Millie—and her
    newfound confidence in herself—be enough to help Haven see the quest through
    to its conclusion? Can she stand up against the fierce predator that is tracking her
    every move?

    Megan Wagner Lloyd is the author of the graphic novel Allergic, as well as the picture
    books Finding Wild, Fort-Building Time, Building Books, and Paper Mice. Megan Wagner Lloyd
    lives with her family in the Washington, DC, area.
    A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR MEGAN WAGNER LLOYD

    A s a child with animal allergies, I loved books with animal main characters.
    This may seem counterintuitive, but I think that, having no pets of my own,
    I jumped at the chance to spend time with animals in one of the only ways I
    could—through my imagination. Charlotte’s Web, The Wind in the Willows,
    The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Redwall, Stuart Little . . . these books entranced me.
    Like the anthropomorphized animals in the stories I loved, I was little and
    vulnerable and a part of a wider world that was mostly a mystery to me. I was
    also very shy and easily frightened. And yet, in my fictional animal friends, I saw
    how someone small and fragile could, step by challenging and treacherous step,
    become stronger and braver—and forge the best of friendships along the way.
    In 2014, I moved to the East Coast after more than fifteen years away. That
    October, autumn unfolded before me like a dream. I drank it in. I couldn’t watch
    its reds and oranges and yellows long enough, couldn’t walk among the crispy
    crunching leaves far enough, couldn’t observe its constant changes fast enough.

    Photo by Seth Lloyd


    I jotted down observations. A neighborhood cat silhouetted among the yellow
    leaves. A fox curled up in the sun, its muzzle tucked under its auburn tail. Deer
    stepping delicately among the trees, going still at every sound. It was a glorious
    surge of beauty and over too soon, like the last few dancing flickers of a fire
    before dying.
    As the fallen leaves gave way to winter’s frost, which in turn gave way to the
    snowdrops of spring, a story grew in me. A story of the fall, the forest, a fox, an
    unlikely friendship . . . and a cat named Haven. A small, homebody, cozy-loving

    Illustrations copyright © 2022 by Suzie Mason


    cat. A cat who, like my childhood self, would feel even smaller when faced with
    the call to adventure. A cat who would somehow find the strength to do what
    needed to be done anyway.
    I can only hope that, like I once saw myself in Wilbur, Mole, Ralph, Matthias,
    Stuart, and others, today’s young readers will see themselves—and their ability
    to become bolder and stronger and braver and truer—in Haven.

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