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Young Fredle

By Cynthia Voigt
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    About Young Fredle

    Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It’s a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they’re called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle’s quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia. And, as Fredle himself will come to understand, of freedom.

    About Young Fredle

    Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It’s a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they’re called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle’s quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia. And, as Fredle himself will come to understand, of freedom.

    About Young Fredle

    Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It’s a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they’re called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle’s quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia. And, as Fredle himself will come to understand, of freedom.

    About Young Fredle

    Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It’s a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they’re called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle’s quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia. And, as Fredle himself will come to understand, of freedom.

    About Young Fredle

    Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It’s a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they’re called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle’s quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia. And, as Fredle himself will come to understand, of freedom.

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    About Cynthia Voigt

    Cynthia Voigt is the author of Dicey’s Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, a Newbery Honor Book. She is the recipient of the 1995 Margaret A. Edwards Award. She lives in Maine.

    About Cynthia Voigt

    Cynthia Voigt is the author of Dicey’s Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, a Newbery Honor Book. She is the recipient of the 1995 Margaret A. Edwards Award. She lives in Maine.

    About Cynthia Voigt

    Cynthia Voigt is the author of Dicey’s Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, a Newbery Honor Book. She is the recipient of the 1995 Margaret A. Edwards Award. She lives in Maine.

    About Cynthia Voigt

    Cynthia Voigt is the author of Dicey’s Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, a Newbery Honor Book. She is the recipient of the 1995 Margaret A. Edwards Award. She lives in Maine.

    About Cynthia Voigt

    Cynthia Voigt is the author of Dicey’s Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, a Newbery Honor Book. She is the recipient of the 1995 Margaret A. Edwards Award. She lives in Maine.

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books | Children’s Picture Books

    Paperback | $7.99
    Published by Yearling
    Mar 13, 2012 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 7-5/8 | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780375857874

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books | Children’s Picture Books

    Hardcover | $16.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Jan 11, 2011 | 240 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780375864575

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books | Children’s Picture Books

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Jan 11, 2011 | 240 Pages | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780375895869

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books | Audiobooks | Children’s Picture Books

    CD | $34.00
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    Jan 11, 2011 | 380 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780307747563

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books | Audiobooks | Children’s Picture Books

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    Published by Listening Library (Audio)
    Jan 11, 2011 | 380 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780307747570

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    Praise

    “Move over, Stuart Little.”
    —Kirkus (starred review)

    “The adventure is gripping . . . this is a writer at the top of her form, warm without sentimentality, wise without pretension.”
    —The Horn Book (starred review)

    “Compelling . . . readers will identify with the universal conflict at the heart of Fredle’s journey—even as he longs for home, he enjoys the newfound freedom.”
    —Publishers Weekly

    Awards

    Kirkus Reviews Best ChildrenÂ’s Books WINNER 2011

    ALA Notable Children’s Book NOMINEE

    Bank Street Child Study Children’s Book Award NOMINEE

    Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award NOMINEE

    ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings SELECTION 2012

    Odyssey Honor HONOR 2012

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