I read the book Lion Boy by Zizou Corder. Charlie is the main character and he is very different from other people in this book because he can talk to cats. He can talk to cats because when he was a baby his blood got mixed with cat blood and ever since then he has been talking to cats. He uses his uniqueness to his advantage. An example is he set a whole team of circus lions against their circus and escaped the circus. Another example is he finds out a lot of things his parents are talking about behind his back or things he's not suppose to know from his family cats. He found out his parents were kidnapped when he talked to one of his family cats. Because he can talk to cats it makes it easier for him to survive and get out of tough situations. One example is he talked to lions to avoid getting killed by them. He makes friends with a lot of cats.
One conflict is he has to find his parents because they get kidnapped. He leaves his home in London and desparately roams around to try to find them. He eventually finds a circus a traveling circus that travels on water in a big boat that is going in the same direction as him. He stays with the circus for a while but once it starts getting dangerous he leaves and smuggles the lions with him and they get on a train.
Another conflict is he is suppose to stay with someone he doesn't trust. His parents leave him a note before they get kidnapped saying to stay with Rafi and his mom. Rafi seems like a very suspicous suspect to his parents kidnapping. He never stays with him; he leaves and trys to find his parents instead.
He can't trust the main lion trainer either. He trusts him at first but once he notices he can talk to cats he starts to watch him more and almost tries kidnapping him. He takes the lions and leaves him.
Towards the end of the book he finds an animal that has been extinct for thousands of years but was geneticaly brought back to life by scientists. Charlie thinks it is wrong but takes him with him and the lions. Because he is a cat charlie can talk to him too. He finds out that he is an ancestor to the species of lions at the circus. The mysterious animal is different from the othere lions; it looked like a saber tooth tiger. Because of that they treat him differently but they still keep him with them.
