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105 pp.
| Cricket
| September, 2006
|
TradeISBN 0-8126-2746-6$16.95
(3)
1-3
Illustrated by
D. Brent Burkett.
Alex finds a toy mouse and feels immediate kinship with it. When he sees "lost mouse" posters around town he's not ready to return it, even though he knows that would be the right thing to do. When his dog goes missing, Alex begins to empathize with the mouse's owner. Alex's emotions (also portrayed through sketchy pencil art) are convincingly drawn.