Pet Hotel #1: Calling All Pets! (1) - Softcover

Finch, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545501806 ISBN 13: 9780545501804

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2013

Synopsis

A fun, funny new chapter book series full of adorable pets and silly adventures!

Twins Meg and Charlie are moving into their great-great-aunt's hotel, and they're in for some surprises! The run-down hotel is full of cool old rooms, a rooftop garden, even an elevator. There's also one big problem -- it doesn't have any guests. But when Meg and Charlie volunteer to look after a neighbor's golden retriever puppy, the fuzzy little furball gives them a great idea. They're going to transform their new home into an amazing hotel . . . for pets!

About this title

About the Author

Kate Finch lives in a regular house with regular pets -- but maybe she'll start a pet hotel of her own one day! PET HOTEL is her first series.

Reviews

Twins Meg and Charlie have moved with their parents into the Diamond Hotel, which is owned by their great-great-aunt. They are there to help run the business so their aunt does not need to sell the hotel and move into a retirement home. The family arrives to find a building, although architecturally interesting, in need of repair, and the business faltering. When a neighboring business owner is injured, the twins volunteer to take care of his puppy. That leads another neighbor to ask the twins to take care of her pet rabbit while she is away at a family function. Both pet-sitting jobs go well, and when another neighbor asks for them to take care of her pet, the idea comes to the family to convert the floundering Diamond Hotel into a pet hotel. Simple and engaging, this title and others in the series should appeal to most children, especially animal lovers. Grades 1-4. --Suanne Roush

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From PET HOTEL #1: CALLING ALL PETS! As they walked along Gazebo Square, Charlie checked the signs on the buildings. "Diamond Hotel!" he murmured. "It sounds like somewhere movie stars would stay." "It might be like a palace!" Meg exclaimed. Mom had stopped in front of a tall brownstone. It was covered in crumbly plaster that might once have been brown, but now looked almost black. Over the battered door was a wooden sign with iron letters that read "DIAMOND HOTEL." The twins' mouths dropped open. "It's called that because 'Diamond' is Saffron's last name," Mom explained, raising her voice as one of the workmen at the archway turned on a big drill. The vibrations made the ground rumble. Bits of plaster fell off the front of Diamond Hotel and showered down on the twins' heads. Plunk! The hotel sign landed at their feet. Meg and Charlie looked at each other. What would Diamond Hotel be like inside?

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545501806
• ISBN 13: 9780545501804
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Gurney John Steven, Jessell Tim
• Number of pages: 96