For Your Paws Only

Spy Mice #2

by Heather Vogel Frederick

In Book 2 of the Spy Mice series, adventure is in store when a secret agent mouse and her fifth-grade friends travel to New York City.Glory Goldenleaf, spy mouse extraordinaire, is assigned her first solo Silver Skateboard mission—to tail the evil rat Roquefort Dupont all the way to the Big Apple. He’s paws-deep in a diabolical plot that could affect the international rodent community, and Glory’s determined to find out what it is.Joining Glory in the big city is fifth-grader Oz Levinson, who’s a finalist in a junior bake-off contest. He and his friend D.B. will be competing against the best bakers in the country on live TV! But when Glory gets mouse-napped in Manhattan, Oz and D.B. need to stage a rescue mission. It will take all of their spy skills to save their favorite mouse, stop the rats’ dastardly scheme—and pull off the perfect dessert.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Fantasy, Animals, Childrens, Adventure

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating is my daughter's. She really enjoyed the story, not least because of the romance element and high-flying adventure. I give it 3.5 or 4.0 stars. I liked that the series is set in Washington, DC, and uses the International Spy Museum, which I've actually visited. Also, I'm a sucker for humans' discards being repurposed for wee furniture and inventions. I appreciated that the human main characters are a fat boy and a black girl, but I got mad that the mice at one point hide in the girl's braided hair (didn't seem possible, given the illos and earlier description, so it struck me as offensive).

We read an ARC, so I hope the overkill adverbs were weeded out in a subsequent editing pass--especially "reluctantly," which had the unfortunate effect of cuing Cake's song "The Distance" every single time. Also, my daughter noted an error or two in the pilgrim history (the story is set around Thanksgiving).

[Peter Espelien · Rating 5 out of 5]

in the story it is said that rats and mice could read which was really surprising. I thought the chocolate chip pumpkin bread that Oz and D.B made was interesting. I found it surprising how mean two boys can be if they set their hearts to it. the fact that the story showed mice riding pigeons was kind of cool. it was kind of interesting to see mice play music. in the sequel we will find out what happens to the rats. I would recommend this book to any one that likes a good spy thriller.

[Louie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's really good, the people who liked the first of the series 'The Black Paw' would really be entertained by this one too. The Spy Mice and the rest of the gang, Glory, Bunsen, B-Nut, Oz, D.B., Julius and so much more and now when the rats could READ? It's up to the mice of the Spy Agency to stop them from having full control.

[Jolie Mecham · Rating 3 out of 5]

being forced to read this book took half the fun out of it and everyone in my group hated it but me. an okay book ment for fourth graders was kinds enjoyable.

[Matthew Randell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don't recall anything bad about this book
But then I don't really recall anything about this book

[Frida · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book is very good

[Kailey (Luminous Libro) · Rating 2 out of 5]

A great one for kids, but not really in my interest zone.

[Caleb Harris]

the mice will break into a secret room