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Starred Review on July 1, 2013 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 4–6—Mouse Minor is the smallest mouse in the Royal Mews of Queen Victoria's Buckingham Palace. Raised by kindly Aunt Marigold, he has no real family. He doesn't even have a proper name-just a nickname. All he knows is that his mother was not a Mews mouse and that his oddly twisted tail marks him as different from his classmates at the Royal Mews Mouse Academy. Mouse Minor violates a cardinal rule of mouse society by accidentally allowing a human to see him dressed in his schoo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2013
The orphaned narrator of this companion to Peck's first mouse book, Secrets at Sea (rev. 9/11), doesn't even know his own name, and his tail falls into the shape of a question mark, a reflection of the many questions he has about himself. Raised by his aunt Marigold in the mouse domain of Queen Victoria's Buckingham Palace, he does know a Great Truth: "For every job a human holds, there is a mouse with the same job, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More