I don't remember when I downloaded this freebie from Amazon to my Kindle so I don't remember if it was listed as a childern's book or not. The obvious guess is that it is for kids because the story is of a community of rats that go through a war. And yet some of the themes were pretty intense fo...
This is written in a literary style, very much like Watership Down and even Charles Dickens' works. More for 9 and up, rather than younger kids. That said, I thought it was a fast paced story, full of twists and turns. Each new chapter brought a new element to the mystery which all comes together...
The pain reminded him of the blue kibble he’d been forced to eat in the lab, which had made his stomach and head hurt terribly. He closed his eyes. The rat, Juniper, had mentioned a place—the Catacombs. The name somehow seemed familiar, but how did he know it? He closed his eyes and concentrated....
“When they found the above-ground city our ancestors had built, the scientists clearly knew we weren’t ordinary rats,” said Juniper. “Lucky for us that they were the ones who found us. As we all know, the Topsiders’ world is full of those who hate rats.” “It seems the scientists were driven out o...