Posts Tagged ‘rats’
A Nest for Celeste
Katherine Tegen Books, 2010
Fantasy
ISBN: 0061704105
352 pages
Synopsis
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Looking For Marco Polo
Random House, 2009
Fiction
ISBN: 0375833218
304 pages
Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Mark’s anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo’s ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark’s father to send out a search party. Anxious about his father and upset about spending Christmas away from home, Mark gets a bad asthma attack in the middle of the night. …
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The Tale of Despereaux – Film
Universal
Fantasy
ISBN: B0018ATR2S
Synopsis
In a happy and magical kingdom, the royal monarchy and the people are in love with soup. On one fateful day, the special soup day of the year, a rat who loves the light named Roscuro comes in on a ship to enjoy the holiday. Unfortunately, he falls into the Queen’s soup, causing her to die, which creates a chain reaction that leads to the banishment of rats into the darkness and the banishment of soup and anything soup-like from the kingdom, including bowls and spoons. Soon the kingdom falls into disarray, as the magic of the soup creates happiness for the people and affects the weather. It’s now cloudy all the time, but never rains. Crops die throughout the land, and the people suffer. …
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The Tale of Despereaux
Candlewick, 2003
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0763617229
272 pages
Newbery Award Winner
Synopsis
Split into four books within this tale, the story weaves its way through the four main characters, each with their own tale about belonging and wanting to be something more than the world tells them they should be. The first story is of a mouse, Despereaux, who has trouble being a mouse, and falls in love with the princess. The second story is about a rat, Chiaroscuro, who refuses to stay in the darkness, but ventures into the castle to become a part of the world of light. …
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