Overview
"A moving animal-fantasy kids will want to squirrel away for repeated reading." --Booklist (starred review) When a hawk snatches up an adventurous squirrel named Phoenix, he's ready to kiss his tail goodbye. But what should have been a death sentence becomes the beginning of a sweeping big-city adventure in this "charming" (Kirkus Reviews) novel by National Book Award- nominated author Tor Seidler. Phoenix is a pretty big deal in his neck of the woods: The largest in his litter with the most lustrous fur and by far the bushiest tail, he's one of the most sought-after squirrels in New Jersey--which makes his kidnapping by hawk even more dramatic. Luckily, the hawk doesn't have the best grip. Unluckily, he drops Phoenix on a freshly-tarred street in downtown Manhattan. Now stripped of his gorgeous golden-brown coat, Phoenix looks like nothing more than a common sewer rat. Fortunately for Phoenix, it's not a pack of sewer rats that find him (they're a notoriously surly bunch), but rather wharf rats. Taken in by siblings Lucy and Beckett, Phoenix is welcomed into a rat pack living in abandoned piers on the Hudson. But when they learn of plans to demolish the piers, Phoenix is swept up in a truly electrifying scheme to stop the humans from destroying his new friends' home.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781534426856
- ISBN-10: 153442685X
- Publisher: Atheneum Books
- Publish Date: August 2020
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 336
- Reading Level: Ages 8-12
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