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    The Wicked Cat
    The Wicked Cat
    The Wicked Cat
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    The Wicked Cat

    By Christopher Pike

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    A mysterious cat causes chaos in the tenth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series.

    Adam and his friends are exploring the area around Spooksville when they come across a black cat. It seems friendly: it purrs when they rub its back, and licks its paws like any other cat. But then it follows them back to town, and strange things begin to happen. A tree falls down, and a house catches fire. Each time something bad happens, the cat is there—watching, with its strange green eyes. And it won’t go away.

    Adam and his friends don’t know what to do. Especially when the fearsome feline begins to use its powers on them!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9781481410885
    The Wicked Cat
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    Christopher Pike

    Christopher Pike is a bestselling young adult novelist and has published several adult books as well—Sati and The Season of Passage being the most popular. In YA, his Last Vampire series—often called Thirst—is a big favorite among his fans. Pike was born in Brooklyn, New York, but grew up in Los Angeles. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his longtime partner, Abir. Currently, several of Pike’s books are being turned into films, including The Midnight Club, which Netflix released as part of a ten-part series. The Midnight Club also draws from a half dozen of Pike’s earlier works. Presently, The Season of Passage is being adapted as a feature film by Universal Studios while Chain Letter—one of Pike all-time bestselling books—is also being adapted by Hollywood. At the moment, Pike is hard at work on a new YA series.  

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    • 5/5
      Stuff starts happening from the beginning which for a short story is actually really good, it keeps it interesting in every page.
      I like how it continues to have the same 4 friends and each new adventure has some either town history or a random real life fact, I don't know, maybe it helps to keep it relatable.

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    The Wicked Cat - Christopher Pike

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    The black cat was waiting for them on the path.

    They weren’t far outside of town when they bumped into it. Lately, because they’d been running into so much trouble in the woods and hills surrounding Spooksville, they had stayed closer to town. Actually, a lot of days they never even left the city. The whole summer they’d had adventure after adventure, and even though they’d enjoyed most of them—after they were over—they felt that each adventure was making them old before their time. Watch especially had gotten tired of risking his life, and said he had a new goal—to live long enough to get his driver’s license.

    They’ll never give you a driver’s license, Sally Wilcox said as they walked on a path just east of the cemetery, which wasn’t a bad spot if you liked glorious views of a witch’s castle and tons of tombstones. Spooksville had a much higher death rate than birth rate. Sally brushed aside her dark bangs and continued, You can’t see well enough to pass the eye test.

    I’ve thought of that, Watch, who seemed to have been born without a last name, said. He always wore four watches—two on an arm, each set for a different time zone in the country. But I plan to memorize the chart beforehand.

    That would be cheating, Cindy Makey, always one to be worried about what was right and proper, said. She had long blond hair and was very pretty.

    The end justifies the means, Watch said.

    But you might still have trouble driving, Adam Freeman reminded him gently. Adam, who usually led the group, was short, with dark hair. He worried about his height and doing the right thing. If you can’t see the road and all.

    Yeah, you might run over little kids like old Harry Hit and Run, Sally said.

    I won’t be like him, Watch said.

    Why? What did he do? Cindy asked.

    His name sort of explains it all, don’t you think? Sally replied, always trying to put Cindy down.

    He was an old guy who used to drive around in a boat-size black Cadillac and tried to run kids over, Watch said. If you saw him coming, you had to get out of his way. He didn’t care if you were on the sidewalk or not, he’d speed up and try to hit you.

    Did he ever kill anyone? Adam asked, horrified.

    Dozens, Sally answered solemnly.

    I can’t remember anyone specific, Watch corrected. But he sure tried his best all the time. One day his nastiness got the best of him. He ran into a telephone pole and when it fell down on him, he was electrocuted.

    The kids in town didn’t want him buried, Sally said. We all signed a petition to hang him on the town Christmas tree that year. He glowed in the dark and actually looked better dead than alive.

    Cindy shook her head. I can’t believe you hung a corpse on a Christmas tree.

    Wait till you see some of the Christmas presents people give each other in this town, Sally said wisely. Then you’ll see that a corpse is nothing.

    What happened to Harry’s Cadillac? Adam asked.

    It seems Harry had possessed it, Watch said. It drove down to Hollywood and tried to get bit parts in horror films. I’ve seen it in a few movies that went straight to video. It got itself a new paint job and is now bright red.

    A car can’t be possessed, Cindy said, annoyed.

    If kids with good grades can be possessed, Sally said, a car can be.

    It was just then that they noticed the cat sitting on the path in front of them.

    What impressed Adam most about it was how shiny its black fur was. The cat looked groomed by a professional. Also, it had intense green eyes that glowed as bright as any Christmas light. As it stared at them, Adam felt as if he were being examined from the inside out. To be quite honest, he took an immediate dislike to the cat. But he didn’t say that to the others because it sounded stupid to take a personal dislike to an animal. Especially when Sally seemed so taken with it.

    Wow, Sally said, stopping them. Look at that cat. It looks like a princess or something the way it’s sitting there.

    But it’s a black cat, Cindy said. Isn’t it supposed to be unlucky to have a black cat cross your path?

    That’s just superstition, Adam answered her.

    But since every other superstition in the book seems to be true in Spooksville we might want to watch it, Watch said.

    Nonsense, Sally replied. It’s a beautiful cat. Look at the way it’s watching us. And it doesn’t have a collar. Maybe it’s a stray and doesn’t belong to anyone.

    You know you don’t have a good history with the things you find to take home, Watch said, referring to the Wishing Stone, which had almost got all of them stranded on a slave planet for the rest of their miserable lives.

    A cat can’t be dangerous, Sally said. Look, I think she likes me.

    You suffer from a strange belief that everyone likes you, Cindy muttered.

    Sally took a step forward. Here kitty, kitty, kitty. Come to Sally.

    It seemed Sally was right. The cat immediately walked over and licked Sally’s hands as she knelt to greet it. Watch leaned over and spoke to Adam.

    I think it must be a very tolerant cat, he said.

    I heard that, Sally muttered. Any of you guys got any food on you?

    Like I always carry a can of tuna in my back pocket, Cindy said.

    Adam stepped to Sally’s side. "It looks like it’s

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