Santa Paws #5: Santa Paws, Our Hero

by Nicholas Edwards

Book Overview

Everyone's favorite canine hero, Santa Paws, is back in this fifth book in the series. Santa Paws's past rescues have made him quite a celebrity -- but he must prove himself in a new challenge. Santa Paws has hit it big Now that it's Christmastime again, he's been asked to do appearances at malls, shopping centers, and children's hospitals all throughout New England. But when disaster strikes, Santa Paws is there to save the day.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439372836
• ISBN13: 9780439372831
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Santa Paws is Coming to Town!!

Description of the story plot and why you gave it the rating: The Callahans's dog, Santa Paws is a dog who loves to help people. He's a hero known all around Oceanport. When the Callahans decide to take a trip to Boston to spend time with their family on Christmas, Santa Paws just can't resist helping people when they are in trouble. When he is on his most heroic rescue mission, him and his owner, Gregory, swim in the freezing cold lake in a Boston park to save a boy got pushed in! When they are taken to the emergency room on Christmas Eve, Santa Paws gets scared and jumps out of ambulance on it's way to a different animal hospital far away and gets lost. Santa Paws tries to find the Callahans and in doing so he helps so many people and they recognize Santa Paws, but can't catch him before he runs away to his family. When Gregory gets out of the hospital bright and early Christmas morning they go searching for Santa Paws. After two days they find Santa Paws on his most dangerous rescue mission, a subway accident, and bring him home for a nice, peaceful, and enjoying Christmas. I gave Santa Paws, Our Hero a 5 star rating because this book is a very exciting book and you never know what comes next!! This book has a lot of suspense and that's why I love this book!!