Jackie's Wild Seattle

How do you rescue a wild coyote trapped in an elevator in a downtown Seattle office building? How do you save an injured baby seal at the bottom of a cliff with the tide coming in? Fourteen-year-old Shannon Young, visiting from New Jersey, is about to find out.

Shannon's parents, both doctors, are working in refugee camps overseas while she and her little brother, Cody, are spending the summer in Seattle with their mysterious uncle Neal. To their surprise, Uncle Neal drives an ambulance for Jackie's Wild Seattle, an animal rescue center. Shannon and Cody join their uncle and his partner, a border collie, for nine weeks of breathless, sometimes reckless, often hilarious adventure chasing after whatever wild critters need help. When Uncle Neal is injured by a red-tailed hawk, Shannnon summons her courage and becomes the one who rescues the animals.

Jackie, who runs the center, believes in the "circle of healing," and in Shannon's circle everyone is in need of healing. Traumatized by the events of September 11, Cody is sure disaster is about to strike. Shannon wants to believe in Tyler, a teenage working off his court-appointed time at the wildlife center, but Uncle Neal thinks he's a ticking time bomb. Meanwhile, Neal is keeping secrets of his own.

Beneath the excitement, there's always an undertow of danger. Everything is uncertain, and home is so very far away.

Author: Will Hobbs
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.76w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780688174743
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 68162 / Jackie's Wild Seattle


Award: Golden Sower Award - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Nutmeg Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award - Nominee
Award: Rhode Island Children's Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 03/01/2003 pg. 12
Kirkus Review - Children 03/15/2003 pg. 468
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2003 pg. 363
School Library Journal 05/01/2003 pg. 153
Booklist 06/01/2003 pg. 1776
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2003 pg. 224
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 94 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2004 pg. 94 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Hobbs, Will: -

Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of nineteen novels, including Far North, Crossing the Wire, and Take Me to the River.

Never Say Die began with the author's eleven-day raft trip in 2003 down the Firth River on the north slope of Canada's Yukon Territory. Ever since, Will has been closely following what scientists and Native hunters are reporting about climate change in the Arctic. When the first grolar bear turned up in the Canadian Arctic, he began to imagine one in a story set on the Firth River.

A graduate of Stanford University, Will lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado.

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