Jackie's Wild Seattle

Jackie's Wild Seattle by Will Hobbs was a great book. The main character, Shannon, is 14, lives in New Jersey has to go to Seattle, Washington for 9 weeks with her 7 year old brother, Cody, because their parents have to go half way around the world helping people in a refugee camp in Pakistan. So they go and stay with their Uncle Neal. They find a bald eagle fledging that had fallen out of it's nest right when they got to Seattle. Will she survive? They end up having the total opposite summer than they were expecting. Cody is obsessed with all kinds of disasters ever since he saw the second Twin Tower fall on 9/11/01. Shannon likes rock climbing and expected to do a lot with Uncle Neal because he used to do search and rescue. Uncle Neal volunteers for Jackie, a kind woman who owns an animal rehabilitation center. Uncle Neal drives an animal ambulance. He gets calls from people and goes and helps animals and brings them back to Jackie's. But when Uncle Neal gets injured, Shannon has to take over the job of trying to save animals in need. The author writes this book from the view of Shannon, but you don't even notice; it seems like there is a narrator! The author, Will Hobbs, put a sense of humor in this book. I've never read a book like it. It made me laugh and it almost made me cry. I loved how this book was so adventurous and funny. It was a real page-turner. If you like some humor, animals and adventure in your books, you'll love Jackie's Wild Seattle!

Do you like animal stories? well, if you do you'll love Jackie's Wild Seattle. I loved this book. I really enjoyed reading it because of the way the author wrote. I also liked the plot of it. A reason I liked this book was because of the way the author wrote. I really like how he explains what the characters think and how descriptive he is. Such as the time when Jackie said, "In between Neal, splitting down to the floor of the van was enough junk to fill a chest of drawers, including a clipboard, scraps of notes and ball-point pens, a cell phone, and a Starbucks cup." When I read that part I could picture what it looked like in his car. Also, when the author wrote what Jackie had found out about her mysterious uncle and he wrote, 1) Neal's apartment was to cramped for him to keep his weights and exercise equipment. Stuff like that. I also loved the the plot of the story. The adventurous story of a girl saving animals because her uncle is hurt and can't do the job. When I read the summary of the book in the back it gave me a good reason to read it. If there were some other plot in the story I really don't think I would have liked it as much as I did. I also always wanted to read to the next chapter to see what would happen. It sucked me in. I thought that this book was awesome. The plot and the way the author wrote were amazing. I really think you should read this book. Trust me, I'm pretty picky when it comes to books and if I loved it you will to.

Jackies Wild Seattle is about a girl named Shannon and her brother Cody who go to vist their Uncle Neil in Seattle Washington. Their parent work for the Doctors Without Borders Foundation and are in Vietnam for the summer. They go to Seattle to spend the summer with their Uncle at a place called Jackies Wild Settla that is an animal recue facility. Shannon and Cody get to help Neil save animals and take care of them. Shannon meets Tyler, a teenager around her age who is working at the center under court order for drowning a dog. Tyler's dad does not like the founder of the center, Jackie, because he wanted the land the centers is on for an automobile garage. About half-way through the summer, Shannon discovers a shocking secret, Uncle Niel has cancer. She and her brother return to their home and get an email from uncle neil is cancer free. I love this story.

As young adult fiction, this book definitely earns 5 stars from me. The characters are engaging and the story's pace was excellent, hooking me to the end. Each main character comes with his or her own issues to solve. The real thrust of the story is the Great Circle of Healing, not only of the rescued animals but of each character. I most enjoyed the values lessons this book provides. I will warn you, however, not every animal makes it to the end of this book, and there is some violence. I think it is entirely age appropriate, but may bother some more sensitive people. Will Hobbs also provides a terrific glimpse of the Seattle area in Summer, which was a delight to this former resident. Overall, this would be a great book to read aloud as a family.

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).