For Ages
8 to 12

Animal Rescue Team: Hide and Seek is a part of the Animal Rescue Team collection.

It's autumn in Grand River, and that means getting ready for Halloween. As Keisha and her pals prepare for the school's annual Halloween parade, the Carters are getting ready for trick-or-treaters. Unfortunately, though, the phone rings one morning and a young deer has a plastic pumpkin stuck on his head. He was enjoying the birdseed treat inside when his antlers got caught. What's a deer to do?  And how do you get a plastic pumpkin off a deer's head when you can't catch it? The Carters' have another problem to solve in this third installment of Animal Rescue Team! 

Also available:
Animal Rescue Team #1: Gator on the Loose!
Animal Rescue Team #2: Special Delivery!

An Excerpt fromAnimal Rescue Team: Hide and Seek

Keisha Carter set out five pieces of bread and buttered them. Using a biscuit cutter, she made a hole in the center of each piece and settled them butter-side-down into Daddy's hot pan.  

"Please get Grandma the ice pack from the freezer," Daddy said as he cracked eggs into the empty spaces.  

Keisha stood on her tippy-toes and felt for the ice pack. "Did she have yoga last night?"  

"Yes. According to Bob, she was showing their instructor the new move she's made up. Cat-falling-off-counter or something like that. She strained her back a little."  

Big Bob, as all the kids called him, worked as a vet tech at the Humane Society, was the leader of their 4-H's Wild 4-Ever Club and always put his yoga mat next to Grandma's at Yoga You Can Do. But he was not Grandma's boyfriend.   "Take it right up and ask her if she wants breakfast in bed. And please find Razi for me. You don't want to be late for school. Tell him I'm making toad-in-the-hole. That'll…

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