Bodega Cats: Just Kitten Around

In the Heights meets Front Desk in this heartwarming and funny illustrated story about the friendship between a bodega owner’s anxious kid and her newly-adopted mischievous kitten. Everyone thinks Yesenia is calm,collectedand crushing it. But reallyher stomach is constantly a ball of nerves. With parents who left their home in the Dominican Republic to make a better life for their kidsand three perfectover-achieving older sistersYesenia can’t let anyone know about the anxiety thatΓÇÖs causing her to fall behind in school. When her doctor tells her parents that taking care of an animal could helplittle did they know her newly adopted kitten would be such a mischievous influence. All kitten Candy can think about is adventureΓÇôand whatΓÇÖs she supposed to do when her owner is cooped up inside helping at the bodega? But when Candy escapes and gets lost in New York City for a nightshe realizes maybe the big open world isnΓÇÖt all itΓÇÖs cracked up to be. Can these two find a way out of feeling so lostas long theyΓÇÖre together?