Jackie’s Wild Seattle by Will Hobbs
Shannon and her little brother, Cody, are off to Washington state in the summer of 2002 for some amazing and occasionally reckless adventures with their Uncle Neal. Uncle Neal is an ambulance driver for a wildlife rescue center called Jackie’s Wild Seattle. Initially, neither Shannon nor Cody is particularly excited. Their mother and father, both doctors, are in Pakistan working for Doctors Without Borders. The children are filled with trepidation at leaving their home in New Jersey, being separated from their parents and dealing with the emotional fallout of the events of September 11th. But as they grow closer to their uncle and the staff of the rescue center and become animal rescuers themselves, Shannon and Cody discover that they each have more strength and courage than they ever imagined.
Favorite review:
I really liked this book because it had different kinds of animals and different kinds of people in the story. The story had a lot of different emotions. Happy, sad, angry, anxious…what ever the emotion, I was right there reading it and just couldn’t put it down! The last reason I liked it was it was by one of my most favorette authors, Will Hobbs.
The best part of the book was when they were in Pioneer Square. They went down to “old seattle” to help catch a raccoon and saw a toilet about 5ft up on a platform. Man when I read that my friend was looking at me like I was crazy(Which I don’t think I’m crazy).
The story elements that were the most vivid were one character. His name was Tyler. Will Hobbs described him with wild-looking hair and intense dark eyes. Later he described Tyler “as though he slept in his clothes or not sleot at all. The second element is the setting. There are many different settings in this book, Park, van, airport, woods and Pioneer Square are just a few. Jackies Wild Seattle(wild life center for animal that are sick) is the setting I’m going to describe. It’s in the woods set backm from the road alittle and is a center which volunteers help with the caring of lots of sick or disabled animals. Now if you read the whole book you will probally find out that Will Hobbs got the idea of Jackies Wild Seattle from a “real life” situation.( But with different people) but it’s in the same area(Seattle Washinton).
It is a 2008 Maud Hart Lovelace Award Nominated book.
