Rescue Tails: The Treacherous Tower

by StacyPlays, Mélody Gringoire (Illustrator)

Overview

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Wild Rescuers series comes Rescue Tails by YouTuber StacyPlays, a thrilling new adventure series about Stacy and her special wolves, with illustrations on every page!

Stacy and her intelligent pack of wolves live in harmony together in a forest cave. But when their friend Milo the bat brings news that a baby ocelot is in danger and needs to be returned to its family, Stacy and Basil must hurry to the jungle biome in order to save the day!

After tracking the lost ocelot, they discover it’s trapped in a long-lost tower that’s full of obstacles, traps, and dangerous creatures. Will Stacy and her wolf Basil rescue the ocelot before it’s too late?

Rescue Tails: The Treacherous Tower is the first book in an all-new Minecraft-inspired adventure series from StacyPlays, the New York Times bestselling author and YouTube sensation with more than 2.3 million subscribers!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063224995
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/16/2024
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	69,845
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Stacy Hinojosa, better known as StacyPlays on the internet, started playing Minecraft in 2012. She immediately fell in love with telling stories through video games and began posting them to YouTube. Her imaginative building series and fun-filled adventures with her wolf pack earned her a loyal audience of over 2.3 million subscribers. When she’s not visiting real-life biomes around the world, Stacy splits her time between the mountains of northern Utah and the desert in southern Utah with her dog, Molly, and her cats, Milquetoast and Pipsqueak (all rescued by her, of course).

Mélody Gringoire is a French 2D/3D animator. She works on the graphics for StacyPlays' YouTube channel, including several of her banners, profile pictures and animated intros and outros. Now, she is a children's book illustrator for the Rescue Tails series.

Editorial Reviews

Ideal for young readers looking for entertaining research. — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-11-04
Another day, another wild animal rescue!

Stacy wakes up and goes to school, where Mathilda Lemming makes fun of her mud-covered outfits. But when you live in a cave with a pack of wolves who use their supernatural abilities to rescue other animals, fashion isn’t a priority! That afternoon, Milo the bat arrives with a message about a baby ocelot in distress. So Stacy sets out with Basil, a wolf who has super-speed, which comes in handy as they travel from their taiga home to the Pantanal of South America. On their trip, they encounter many native animals, including an axolotl, a poison dart frog, a sloth, a harpy eagle, and an anaconda. Finally, they reach a ruinous tower laced with traps—will they be able to save the baby ocelot? Stacy’s journal entries are packed with noteworthy nature facts (some gathered from the library books she grabbed before they left) and vocabulary, supported by the cartoonish but enlightening illustrations. The narrative mostly serves as a vehicle for the educational aspects, making this title ideal for young readers looking for entertaining research. As in YouTuber StacyPlays’ previous series Wild Rescuers, there’s no explanation for why the animals have these abilities or can understand this particular human. Characters’ races and ethnicities aren’t mentioned; in the grayscale art, Stacy appears to be tan-skinned, and Mathilda is lighter-skinned.

What it lacks in story, it makes up for in information. (Fiction. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews