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Nuts to You
CCBC Review:
When gray squirrel Jed is snatched by a hawk, he manages to slip from its clutches but ends up far from home (at least in squirrel terms). Jed’s friends TsTs and Chai go looking for him, following the buzzpaths (electric lines) toward where TsTs saw Jed fall. Jed, meanwhile, has landed among a group of red squirrels. He finds it hard at first to understand their accents but kindness needs no translation. The three friends are reunited just before humans with tree chewers (chainsaws) come through clearing away trees from the wires. Not that the squirrels understand this. They only see destruction and realize their own families and friends are in jeopardy. Tchotchke, a singular red squirrel, joins the race back to the gray squirrel community. To convince the gray squirrels to flee before the tree chewers arrive, the friends devise a grand game called “Move.” Squirrels, it turns out, are very competitive. (“How are we choosing teams? … Counting off, rhyming, or tails in?”) Lynne Rae Perkins’s adventure story is both comic and heroic, with a wonderful squirrel’s-eye view of aspects of our own world, and imaginative insight into everyday squirrel behavior that is funny and logical both. ©2014 Cooperative Children's Book Center
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 6-9
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Format:
Novel
Subjects:
Animals (Fiction)
Courage
Fantasy
Humor
Nature/Environment
Problem-Solving
Survival
On CCBC Booklist:
Fantasy for 8 to 12 Year Olds: Giants, Journeys, and Other Imaginings
Publishers:
Greenwillow, HarperCollins
Publish Year: 2014
Pages: 259
ISBN: 9780060092757
CCBC Location: Fiction, Perkins
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