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Mar 13, 2012 | ISBN 9780375857874 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jan 11, 2011 | ISBN 9780375895869 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
Jan 11, 2011 | 380 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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Mar 13, 2012 | ISBN 9780375857874 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Jan 11, 2011 | ISBN 9780375895869 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Jan 11, 2011 | ISBN 9780307747570 | Middle Grade (8-12)
380 Minutes
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.
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.
“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
ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings SELECTION 2012
Odyssey Honor HONOR 2012
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