The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Format: Mass Market Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0060012358 ISBN13: 9780060012359 Release Date: August 2008 Publisher: Clarion Books Length: 368 Pages Weight: 0.65 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.1" x 6.7" Age Range: 13 years and up Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher "An astonishing novel. Were Terry Pratchett not demonstratively a master craftsman already, The Amazing Maurice might be considered his masterpiece." --Neil GaimanThe Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits.For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets....Set in bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld,