The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D Author:Marilyn Sachs, Rosanne Litzinger (Illustrator) Four ugly cats and 3 days to rehouse them...can Lily achieve the impossible? Lily is a ten-year-old latchkey kid and lives in apartment 3B. Two of the neighbours on her floor are friendly and nice, but the other neighbour, Mr Freeman, the old grump who lives in apartment 3D has a reputation for being a mean, old man and is disl... more »iked by most. So are his four ugly cats who continually yowl and irritate everybody in the building.
When Mr Freeman dies suddenly, all of the neighbours and the landlord want to ship the cats off to the S.P.C.A. But Lily remembers that Mr Freeman was nice to her once and is actually a kind man who cares deeply for his four ugly cats. He once kindly invited her in to wait for her mother when she forgot her keys and was locked out of her apartment.
She remembers his love for the four ugly cats. They were his family; he cared for them and gave them a home. Lily refuses to let the cats be destroyed. "You have three days", the landlord tells her, "before the apartment will be rented". But Lily discovers that relocation isn't easy. The cats are ugly and very noisy and nobody wants them. Like a true heroine in a fairy tale, Lily sets out, with ingenuity and care, to accomplish what seems like the impossible: to find homes for the four ugly cats in apartment 3D.« less