Young Fredle

(Paperback)

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"Move Over, Stuart Little"--Kirkus Reviews, Starred From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt comes a heartwarming tale of one mouse's quest to figure out where he truly belongs. 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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"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 journeyeven as he longs for home, he enjoys the newfound freedom."
Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

CYNTHIA VOIGT is the acclaimed author of many books, including Dicey's Song, winner of the Newbery Medal, and A Solitary Blue, winner of a Newbery Honor. For the body of her work, Cynthia Voigt was honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults. She lives with her husband in Maine.