A 2007/2008 Sunshine State Young Reader Award nominee
Whittington
by Alan Armstrong
760 Lexile
(a teacher's guide and resource for lesson plans)
 Whittington is a roughneck Tom-cat who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals—as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing—a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in 16th-century England. This is an unforgettable tale about the healing, transcendent power of storytelling, and how learning to read saves one little boy.
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