Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Synopsis
Maurice is a talking cat who has assembled a gang of talking rats and a stupid-looking kid to run a variant of the Pied Piper scam — the rats infest towns, Maurice's boy pipes them away, and everyone splits the money. Until they arrive in Bad Blintz, where there are no rats to infest but the townspeople are starving, and something terrible is living under the town. The first Discworld novel written for children, winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
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Characters
MauriceProtagonist
A talking cat who has built a profitable scam and is starting to develop inconvenient feelings like guilt and responsibility.
Malicia GrimSupporting
A girl who has read too many stories and believes she knows how they work — useful and dangerous in equal measure.
Dangerous BeansSupporting
The philosophical leader of the educated rats — small, nearly blind, and wholly concerned with questions of ethics and what it means to be a person.
PeachesSupporting
One of the educated rats who serves as Dangerous Beans' companion and the rats' most outward-looking member.
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Edition
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodentsUnknown, 2008
340 pages
HarperCollins PublishersLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9780060012359Rev. pbk. ed.5 editions available
