Goodbye Kate Author:Billy C. Clark, Jerry A. Herndon, Harold Eldridge Goodbye Kate is based in part on a mule Clark once owned. In the story, Kate is found far back in the hills by a lonely country boy named Isaac Warfield. He has graduated from the little country school he has attended and the other members of his class will be moving on to another school or no school at all. Isaac will walk into the ... more »nearest town, Tatesburg, to school. He finds Kate when he goes back into the hills to pick blackberries for his mother. The little mule is as lonely as he is, and she adopts him and follows him home as far as the pine grove above his house, that is. Kate gets Isaac into trouble when she follows him to school and disrupts classes, tramples flower beds, and, worst of all, eats feed at John Naper's feed store. Her final crime results in her arrest and incarceration in the town jail. Only Isaac and his friend, Elwood, can save her from a final trip to the tannery.« less
ISBN-13: 9780945084419 ISBN-10: 0945084412 Pages:274 Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: