Oh, Rats!

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 captivating novel by National Book Award--nominated author Tor Seidler.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 08/27/2019
ISBN: 9781534426849
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 06/10/2019
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 71
School Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 70
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2019 pg. 100
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average
BookPage 08/01/2019

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 503384 / Oh, Rats!
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 9