Oh, Rats!
Tor Seidler, Gabriel Evans
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
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· 3 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 27 Aug 2019
Phoenix is a pretty big deal in his neck of the woods: The biggest 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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- animals 3
- friendship 3
- anthropomorphism 2
- children 2
- action / adventure 2
- funny 1
- exploration 1
- non-human/xenofiction 1
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- format - reader age
- middle grade 3
- book 1