Heartwarming, charming and sometimes spine-tingling, thisstory by award-winning author Kara LaReau is about fitting in, standingout, overcoming fear, and finding a place called home.A young and frightened kitten is brought starry-eyed into a newhousehold. A boy named Max is trying desperately to get over theloss of his former beloved pet. But ghosts don't always enjoy beingforgotten. Sometimes they must make their presence known.In her cage at the Mount Charles Animal Shelter, Kitty feels saferthan she did in the woods. And then Max appears at the shelter.Max has adopted all sorts of pets over the years and he seemskind. When Max chooses Kitty, she is going to have a home at last.There is a scent lingering in the house on 5 Manderley Lane. Thescent rises from every chair leg, every carpet fibre, every pillow,even inside the bathtub. Everything smells like Licorice. Itis the strongest upstairs in Max's room, almost overpowering. Ifthe smell isn't enough, Duchess, the family's old parrot, won'tlet Kitty forget that she is a replacement. And soon, Kitty findsherself trapped in the long shadow of the cat that came beforeher. But is it just a shadow? Or is there something really thereon the other side of it ... haunting her...Licorice is an atmospheric and gripping story full of twists andturns and gorgeous black and white illustrations throughout byKelly Murphy.
