Mouseheart by Lisa Fielder
Ages 8-12
Hopper is Just an ordinary pet-shop mouse--until he escapes. Soon he finds himself below the bustling streets of Brooklyn, deep within the untangles of transit tunnels, and in Atlantia, a glorious utopian rat civilization.
But all is not as it seems. Hopper misses Pinkie and Pup, the siblings he list in the escape attempt. Atlantia is constantly threatened by roving revels who with to bring the city to its knees. And there are cats everywhere, cats who would normally eats a rodent in a second, but leave the rats unharmed . . .
and no one can seem to answer why.
Soon Hopper is caught in the cross-hairs of an epic battle, on that spans generations and species. As the clashes rage, Hopper learns terrible, extraordinary secrets. Deadly secrets about Atlantia. Painful secrets about his friends. And one powerful secret about himself.
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