The Nine Lives of Montezuma is a 1980 British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo.

[1] It is about the exciting life of a farm cat called Montezuma who has many brushes with death.

Montezuma (Monty) is a ginger cat, with blue-green-yellow eyes, and loves hunting and playing with his owner, Matthew.

As Montezuma grows up, he has fights with various cats and dogs; he ends up getting lost twice; he falls into a pond; he meets Daisy the Cow, and Sam the farm dog, and along the way, he also meets some characters who are nice to him, and some who are not so nice to him.

They also noted how the book is organized into the cats nine lives, instead of chapters.