The Great Pet Escape (Pets on the Loose!)
The Great Pet Escape (Pets on the Loose!) book cover

The Great Pet Escape (Pets on the Loose!)

Hardcover – February 16, 2016

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Price
$19.72
Format
Hardcover
Pages
64
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1627791052
Dimensions
6.22 x 0.39 x 9.14 inches

Description

"Guaranteed fun." ―Kirkus Reviews "Told with a wickedly sharp sense of humor, Jamieson’s latest delivers a madcap adventure that is sure to please young readers." ― Booklist , starred review Victoria Jamieson received her BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. She worked as a children's book designer before moving to Portland and becoming a freelance illustrator. She has also worked as a portrait artist aboard a cruise ship, and has lived in Australia, Italy, and Canada. She maintains a not-so-secret identity as Winnie the Pow, a skater with the Rose City Rollers roller derby league. She is the author of The Great Pet Escape .

Features & Highlights

  • The class pets at Daisy P. Flugelhorn Elementary School want OUT . . . and GW (short for George Washington), the deceptively cute hamster in the second-grade classroom, is just the guy to lead the way. But when he finally escapes and goes to find his former partners in crime, Barry and Biter, he finds that they actually LIKE being class pets. Impossible! Just as GW gets Barry and Biter to agree to leave with him, a mouse named Harriet and her many mouse minions get in their way. What follows is class-pet chaos guaranteed to make readers giggle . . . and maybe look at their class pets a little differently in the future.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

✓ Verified Purchase

A new graphic novel by author of "Roller Girl."

Another graphic novel and Texas Bluebonnet nominee by Victoria Jamieson. Last year's Roller Girl won the Bluebonnet Award and rightly deserved to do so with its high visual appeal and equally solid story with a great life lesson to boot. This year's Jamieson title has the same outstanding illustrations but is purely goofy fun for the 2nd-4th grade crowd. It will be eagerly read by that age group and even older avid graphic novel fans who are looking only for a quick read that doesn't tax the brain at all. I am happy to have this book on my library shelves at both my 4th and 5th grade campuses, but it does not wow me personally like Roller Girl did.

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