LionBoy

So I recently read this book called LionBoy.
At first it wasn't that good and it took a few chapters to actually get into it, but when I did it was hard to put down!
So it's about this kid named Charlie who has an ability to speak cat! He has a mom and dad that are very smart and have a room full of cures for everything.
One day his parents are kidnapped and a kid from his town named Rafi says he was goign to take care of him now.
Then he goes on an epic chase on trying to rescue his parents.
The cats help him on the way to Paris and bring him and send letters for him to give to his parents.
He goes onto a ship that has a circus.
He meets some lions on the ship and he becomes the lion trainers assistant.
Then he talks to the lions and has them help him to get away from this circus ship and to go find his parents that were by chance heading for Venice, (he was going to Venice too before he went to Paris.)
Then he gets away from where the circus was going on and he ran away with the Lions.
But Rafi happened to be there as well and he ran after them, one of the lionesses bit him and threw him into the water.
Then they got onto a train and he put the lions on top of it.
Then he finds that the kind of Bulgaria is on the train.
He turns out to be a very kind person.
He found out that there were lions on his train but he was nice and asked Charlie what he was going to do with them.
Charlie told him his whole story(leaving out the part about him being able to speak cat.)
The king got his adviser Edward into the room and Edward told him that his parents knew how to cure asthma and the people who kidnapped his parents didn't want everyone to know how to cure it because then they wouldn't make any money anymore, so they captured his parents.
I really liked this book and look forward to reading the other two books in this Trilogy :)