Animal Rescue Team: Gator on the Loose!
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Meet the Carters: Mr. and Mrs. Carter, 10-year-old daughter Keisha, five-year-old Razi, baby Paolo, and Grandma Alice. Together, they run Carters' Urban Rescue, the place you call when you've got an animal where it shouldn't be. In their first adventure, there's a baby alligator at the city pool, which will seriously interfere with opening day, especially Keisha's cannonball practice. So it's up to the whole family to figure out what to do with the poor guy who has no business hanging around Michigan. Luckily for all of them, and thanks to some serious ingenuity from Keisha, the answer is closer than they ever could have imagined.
Sue Stauffacher turns to her first series effort with Animal Rescue Team. With compelling plots based on actual events in her community, Sue has created a lovable cast of characters of boys and girls, young and old, who feel like people you'd meet at your neighborhood block party. Written in an accessible and engaging style meant to appeal to those independent readers looking to be excited and entertained, and with subplots about friendship, siblings, the environment, and animal conservation, along with plenty of humor, these will be a hit with teachers and librarians, and parents, as well as kids themselves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Stauffacher s (Donutheart) Animal Rescue Team series opens with a slightly overwritten story introducing a Michigan family that runs a wildlife rehabilitation service. After 10-year-old Keisha Carter; her younger brother, Razi; and their father and grandmother rescue an alligator that has wandered into the city pool, the creature escapes from the family s bathtub (where they ve placed it for safekeeping), necessitating a second rescue. Called upon to evaluate the gator s condition, a zoo employee helps deliver the moral: alligators don t make suitable pets and often can t survive when released into the wild by their owners. Keisha is a virtual encyclopedia of facts about alligators and other animals, and the sheer chaos of the Carter family s multiracial household with friends and neighbors constantly popping in keeps the story moving. The environmental message, though, is delivered with a somewhat heavy hand, and the humor largely generated by unconvincingly eccentric Grandma (who s obsessed with fashion and looking young) and grating chatterbox Razi can feel forced, though animal lovers are unlikely to mind. The series continues in July with Special Delivery! Ages 8 10.
