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Jessica
Oct 21, 2007 rated it really liked it
Shelves: middle-grade, fantasy, own
This was such a fun book, particularly for younger kids. Benjamin Ravenspell is anxious to prove that he is responsible enough to have a pet of his own, so he lizard-sits for a classmate's monitor lizard. When he buys a small mouse to feed the lizard, however, he is suddenly transformed into a mouse himself! Amber, the mouse, is wizard, and she enlists Ben's aid in a quest to free her fellow pet-shop inmates, never knowing that an evil bat-wizard is after her.

Along the way, Farland gently teach
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Bryan457
Ben gets turned into a mouse by a mouse wizard and sets out on a quest to free the mice in the local petshop.

An imaginative fastpaced fantasy novel written for the junior age group. I enjoyed the magic and the character growth of the young protagonists as they learn to put aside their egocentric view of life and learn what it means to be a friend.

There seems to be a lot of potential for the sequel.