Lucky Star - Cathy Cassidy

Cat meets Mouse as she's about to run over Dog, which could be the start of a dubious animals-as-people novel, except it's not, because Cat and Mouse are really Catrin and Martin, two real-life human kids from, London. The dog's a dog though, and his real name is Lucky, or at least that what Mouse/Martin likes to call him. As the story starts we learn immediately that Mouse is Trouble, and has A Past. We know this because on the first page we are introduced to his social worker, Dave, and learn of the latest Trouble, capital T, he's been getting himself in to. A few pages in, and along comes Cat. She's not like Mouse - she goes to a posh school and lives in a swanky house, as apposed to his ...