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(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Stephanie Yue. Ten-year-old Megan's inventor uncle gives her "the Thumbtop," a tiny mouse-size computer, before she moves to live with her estranged father. Actual mice take notice of the device and, after establishing contact with Megan, propose a deal: give every mouse a Thumbtop, and they will save the world from climate change. The warmly drawn characters help ground an imaginative if overblown premise.

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