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.