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Mouse (Five Ancestors #6)
by
Jeff Stone (Goodreads Author)
Little street urchin ShaoSu has always wanted to belong. His small size makes him an easy target for bullies and baddies and this little “mouse” always needs a place to hide. When he is befriended by Hok and Ying, he thinks he has found a new family, and eagerly tags along as they continue on their travels. What he doesn’t know is that his new friends are the most wanted c...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
February 10th 2009
by Random House Books for Young Readers
(first published 2009)
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The Five Ancestors series is plain out fantastic! I started reading the books in middle school and took a break until recently when I read the 6th book Mouse. I would read this book a million times and more if I had the time. This book is a continuation of the last one and you read it from the perspective of a young boy which they call ‘Mouse’.
Reading this book you see the story play out in a different way as the others, before it was the same story from a different point of view of the Five A...more
Reading this book you see the story play out in a different way as the others, before it was the same story from a different point of view of the Five A...more
This is a great kids series- very much like what the first season of Lost would be like if the main characters were 12-year old martial artists- though I'm starting to get anxious for it to be wrapped up. Each book in the series is told from the point of view of one character- each of whom is an orphaned martial arts expert scattered into the world when their temple is burned to the ground. Each must struggle to fight, survive, and puzzle together what has happened and what they can do to stop i...more
Book #6,
Mouse
of the Five Ancestors series was less action and more espionage than any other book in the series. The book focuses on ShaoShu, Little Mouse, who was introduced in Book #5, Eagle. A street urchin with a talent for getting into tight places, ShaoShu must rely on speed, stealth and intrigue to get by. Therefore, this book was all plot building. There was little fighting, other than a naval battle and a few pistol fights. There was very little kung fu here, as more and more of the w...more
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The smallest of all takes the biggest risks of allto save his newfound friends and closest family, it's hard to think that kids that age hwould attempt to sav the world even though it seems so unfair to them! A true story of honour and bravery, it's just awesome!
This book is the 6th in the 5 Ancestors Series by Jeff Stone. I loved the first few books, but now it's seems to have gone on too long. If you love kung fu and martial arts, this is a series for you. Keep in mind that the quality slowly goes downhill.
A set up for the final book in the series.... Tonglong will stop at nothing to get what he wants and to get rid of traitors or enemies. ShaoShu (mouse) is Hok's new friend (and Ying's.... Who would have guessed) and works from within to spy on Tonglong. Let the "battle" begin......
The sixth book in The Five Ancestors series. As this series winds down to its close, ShaoShu sneaks off to gather information for his friends. He stows away on the boat of the evil Tonglong and when found must pretend to help him to stay alive. But who is using whom? A wonderful continuation of the story line. You won't be able to wait for the 7th and final book that will decide the battle for the future of China.
Mouse is a great title for book 6 of this series. Next to Monkey, Tiger, Eagle, Crane, and Snake, it was small and lacking. While Mouse helped to carry the story along and maintain the style of the series, I constantly found myself hoping the story would turn back to the main characters. Because I really like the series, I'm giving Mouse a little grace and bumping it to a 4-star rating instead of the 3 I feel is more appropriate.
this book was good!! i would say that uit has lots of atuion and it was just so cool i would rercomed this book to my friends this book made you fell like your part of whats going on!!!
This is adolescent reading but I enjoyed the story line (and the simplicity of the reading).
I've read the series (waiting on book 7, Dragon) and have enjoyed them all.
I've read the series (waiting on book 7, Dragon) and have enjoyed them all.
Shaoshu, a newly found friend to Ying and Hok is an orphan whose only name for his entire life has been 'Little Mouse'. His unnatural abilities to squeeze through tight places, pick keyed locks easily, and speed through streets without being seen make him a perfect spy. He starts out this story stuck aboard Tonlong's Man-O-War doing the evil man's dirty work such as getting a key from a grave and infiltrating the southern warlords lair by dodging trip wires. In the end, the emperor is being held...more
Mouse is not a fighter, but he provides some key information and helps in some interesting ways. Just one more book in the series--Dragon.
In this book all the drama of the series starts to come together. This is when it started to become my favorite series.
The only reason I continue to read the series is to find out how it ends. Having a seven year old child placed in wartime situations doesn't thrill me. I am not impressed.
A book all about a thief. However for some reason this unlike all the others has nothing to do with kungfu :P
I like how Jeff Stone makes each characters personality like a animal's. Like in this book, Xiao Shu was like a mouse, he was sneaky and can hiding really well. All of his character traits are just like a mouse's. This is also another reason I like his books. Also, I noticed by looking at the books after this 1 that he also writes in a villians point of view. I would like to see what the villians are thinking because in most books, it is told by the hero's point of view and not a villains point...more
I liked this installment of the series
Awesome. unbelievable powers
I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the previous books, probably because it was all about ShaoShu (Little Mouse). I liked Little Mouse, but I missed the viewpoints of the young monks.
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I think this series is one of my favorites because each book is from a different protagonist's perspective. This particular story was told from a little boy's point of view which was interesting because even though he didnt understand a lot of the things that were going on, he made his own interpretation. They sometimes made me analyze in a different way and at times it was cute.
but maybe from the series books i have been reading, i can predict what happens more easily.
but maybe from the series books i have been reading, i can predict what happens more easily.
Just like the other books in this series this was great! I really liked how the characters worked together and got on enemy lines during this book.
AWESOME!!
Daxton loves this series.
In this one, the 7 year old boy's name is ShaoShu which means little mouse in cantonese and he's not a martial arts master like the Fu, Malao, Hok, Seh, Ying, and Long but he has an extrordinary ability to hid in incredibly small places and he is very flexible.
I liked this view the most because I was always wondering if he was going to get caught. This was a great book.
I read the rest of the series ages ago and I have this one, the newest one on hold at the library.
The series gets better with each book. I like how a bit more of the story is told with each book. I'm really enjoying them and can't wait to see what happens next!
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Jeff Stone is the author of the hugely successful Five Ancestors series. When that series concluded, he wanted to do something different than another tale set in seventeenth-century China. However, he was reluctant to completely let go of kung fu or the characters he had grown to love. So he created an opportunity to update them to his own contemporary life. That would be his new trilogy--The Five...more
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