The Black Paw

Spy Mice #1

by Heather Vogel Frederick

Brand new book in plastic!

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

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 21, 2005

Reviews

[Toni (fictionbooknook) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book for the first time in middle school and it made me so so happy in this reread!! It’s such a fun plot, with really cool characters, my favourites being glory and b-nut. I live in DC, so it was so great to read a book now with the context of the city I’m so familiar with. I mostly loved reading about the mice spy tech and how they make it out of foraged human items.

[✨Anna✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Heather's writings and the book was written very well. I started it and it was alright, but it did seem to be more of a book directed for boys. Like I said, written very well, but if you're a girly-girl like me you may be disappointed.

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS BOOK IS AMAZING AND HAS SUCH A INTERESTING PLOT

[Brooke · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really love her other books and series. This one was fine, I just didn’t love it like I did the others. Probably won’t continue the series.

[The Styling Librarian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spy Mice by Heather Vogel Frederick – Animal Fiction/Mystery – 4th grade and up – I enjoyed rereading this and reading aloud the book to my son, took way too long to read it aloud but we enjoyed all the twists, turns, and adventures throughout! Glory Goldenleaf is a mouse who works at the spy museum going on secret, dangerous missions and helping the mouse world with various challenges including receiving a black paw, threat of death, from her family’s nemisis. It was fun to follow her skate boarding, creative solutions, and flying on pigeons adventures. I especially loved how she found her partners.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really cool, fast-paced and detailed story. It was definitely more of a plot-based story than a character-driven story, but there’s ROOM for more development in the rest of the series. The writing and ‘world-building’ were great. Would I read more by this author? Yep. Would I recommend this to others? Sure. Kids would really get into this.

See the full review on my blog, Awesome Book Assessment.

[Peter Espelien · Rating 5 out of 5]

I choose this book because I accidentally checked out the third book in the series from the library. The book was a good spy novel. it was also very suspenseful and exiting. I learned from the story that family is the most important thing in the world. I would use bits of the authors writing style like her excitement and suspense in my own writing. I was surprised that the story did not show mice as pests it showed them as intelligent creatures with advanced society. I was surprised at how badly rats were portrayed in the story.

[Tarissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun adventure story, filled with the cutest of mice, bravest of kids, and most evil of rats.

The whole plot beamed with intrigue. The spy agent theme made the story come alive! The author really included some fun ideas for what mice would do if they lived as we do -- it is these details that truly made the story charming and fun.

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the first book in a series and it was an okay read but I think it's too "cute" to cash in on the spy craze. The story would be better without the talking mice/human interaction and more focus on mice spy gadgets. I won't be pursuing the rest of the series.

[Arath · Rating 3 out of 5]

it is a very good book and i liked it

[Kathi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ryan loved this book! I love reading with him.

[Yoonmee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very cute book about spy mice in the International Spy Museum. Being a DC Metro area gal, I got a big kick out of reading about the mice visiting all different parts of the city.

[jiawei Ong · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very cool. I like how mice and humans work together to fight rats. I think mice like these will happen 20 years later.

[Henry · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute story, but I won't be reading the rest of the series.

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

a pretty good book and something i'd recommednd reading in your spare time for grades 4-6???

[Yuyang Zhang · Rating 5 out of 5]

Glory's dad looks so young that I almost thought he is Glory's brother! Also, I believe that B-Nut cares more about Glory than Chip do.

[Yetimomma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read with my boys. One gave it 4 stars and the other gave it 3 stars, so this became a 3.5 stars book for us.

[Toby · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great part was when Oz's mother was making cookies for the class and Oz took one for his friend Glory and i thought that was very funny. (-:

[Nick · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not so good