Request #225

Trying to find a book that I read in the late 70’s??? I think the book was set in the 60’s maybe early 70’s. I think the book title was Kat and Me or Me and Kat maybe spelled with a c not sure. It was a coming of age book about a boy who was an outsider/rebel who lived with his mom. I think it was set during his senior year. He had a starling he had rescued that could talk. I think there was an actual cat in the book but it was also in reference to a girl he liked. She was popular and maybe he was tutoring her or something. I had got it from the library and it was a hardback book. In the end he left to go to the city. I can’t remember if the girl went with him or not. He might have been an artist.