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  The Tale of Despereaux

  Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

  by Kate DiCamillo

  Despereaux Tilling is a mouse. A small mouse. A different mouse. He becomes a complete outcast and has to face harsh punishment even more than ever when he falls in love with a princess- imagine! A human! Despereaux is sentenced to the dungeon by his fellow mice and even his own family. Fortunately with a little luck, a lot of skill, and some friends, Despereaux finds himself on a special quest- a quest to find... (more)
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  A Nest for Celeste

  A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

  by Henry Cole

  A beautifully illustrated novel about a mouse, her friendship with Audubon's apprentice, and her search for home. Beneath the crackled and faded painting of a horse, underneath the worn and dusty floorboards of the dining room, lives Celeste, a mouse who spends her days weaving baskets, until one day she is thrust into the world above. Here Celeste encounters danger—and love—unlike any she's ever imagined. She... (more)
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  If You Give

  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

  by Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond

  If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim... The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but young readers will come... (more)
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  The Mouse and the Motorcycle: Book 1

  The Mouse and the Motorcycle

  by Beverly Cleary

  "Boy!" said Ralph to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh boy!" Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt good and solid beneath his paws. Yes, this motorcycle was a good machine all right. Ralph the mouse ventures out from behind the piney knothole in the wall of his hotel-room home, scrambles up the telephone wire to the end table, and... (more)