Rat Tales:
And Other Stories of Mice, Hamsters, Gerbils and Rodents of All Kinds
Arkin,
Alan - The Lemming Condition. A young lemming is haunted
by doubts about the purpose of the great march westward to the
sea. (Juv Fic)Avi - Poppy. Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a cornfield big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas. See also Ereth's Birthday, Poppy and Rye and Ragweed. (Juv Fic)
Banks, Lynne Reid - I, Houdini: The Autobiography of a Self-Educated Hamster. Meet Houdini, an escape artist hamster whose exploits land him in various dangerous situations, all due to his quest to escape his cage and experience the "Outside" world. (Juv Fic)
Bond, Michael - Here Comes Thursday. The Cupboardosity clan, a family of mice, adopts its newest member, Thursday, after he escapes from the Home for Waif-Mice and Stray-Mice, creating a series of hilarious adventures. (Juv Fic)
Bond, Michael - Tales of Olga da Polga.
Olga, the guinea pig known for telling tall tales, leaves the
pet shop to explore the world of the "Sawdust People"
(the guinea pig name for humans). See also Olga Carries On.
(Juv Fic)
Brady, Irene - Beaver Year Follow the adventures of Cassie
and Paddle, two newborn beaver kits, as they explore the underwater
tunnels and deep waters of the beaver pond. (Juv Fic)
Cleary, Beverly - The Mouse and the Motorcycle. While living in a mousehole at the Mountain View Inn, a young mouse named Ralph meets a human boy and finds an unexpected career as a motorcyclist opening up to him. See also Runaway Ralph and Ralph S. Mouse. (Juv Fic)
Conly, Jane Leslie - Racso and the Rats
of NIMH. Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the
adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the
destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.
See also R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH, and Mrs.
Frisby and the Rats 
of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien. (Juv Fic SF)
Dana, Barbara - Zucchini. A painfully shy young boy befriends a homeless baby ferret and gets as much comfort as he gives. (Juv Fic)
Drury, Robert - The Champion of Merrimack County. The discovery of a bike-riding mouse in the bathtub is just the beginning of a series of humorous communications for the Berryfield family. (Juv Fic)
Godden, Rumer - The Mousewife. A house mouse who thinks there must be more to life than looking for food and caring for her family befriends a lonely, caged dove. (Juv Fic)
Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows. Four animal friends - Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger - live along a river in the English countryside and participate in fabulous adventures. (Juv Fic)
Hoban, Russell - The Mouse and His Child. A wind-up toy mouse and his child, broken and then mended, set out to find the animals with whom they shared a life at the toy shop. (Juv Fic SF)
Hoeye, Michael - Time Stops for No Mouse. While caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Hermux, a rodent watchmaker, struggles against an eccentric cosmetics tycoon, a sinister plastic surgeon and a squad of ruthless lab rats. (Juv Fic SF)
Hurwitz, Johanna - PeeWee's Tale. When his owners release him in Central Park, a young guinea pig learns to survive in the natural world with the help of a "park-wise" squirrel while trying to find his way home. (Juv Fic)
Jacques, Brian - Redwall. The inhabitants
of Redwall Abbey, deep in Mossflower woods, must continually struggle
against evil as it threatens to change their peaceful way of life.
See also Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron,
Martin the Warrior, The Bellmaker, Outcast of Redwall, Pearls
of Lutra, The Long Patrol, Marlfox, The Legend of Luke, Lord Brocktree,
and Taggerung. (Juv Fic SF)
Jarvis, Robin - The Dark Portal. While on a rescue mission, a few daring mice journey below to the sewers to an evil world populated by rats who peel mice before eating them and worship the Dark Lord. See also The Crystal Prison. (Juv Fic SF)
Johnson, Annabel - I Am Leaper. Leaper, a kangaroo rat who can communicate with humans, enlists the aid of a boy named Julian to help defeat a "monster" that has been terrorizing the desert where she lives. (Juv Fic)
King-Smith, Dick - A Mouse Called Wolf. A mouse with an unusual name shares his musical gift with a widowed concert pianist. (Juv Fic)
King-Smith, Dick - Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig. Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks she says it can. (Juv Fic)
King-Smith, Dick - Magnus Powermouse. A baby mouse who won't stop growing is carried off by the rat catcher and begins a series of adventures. (Juv Fic)
King-Smith, Dick - The School Mouse.
Flora, the world's most educated mouse, saves her family during
a 
crisis. (Juv Fic)
King-Smith, Dick - Three Terrible Trins. Three mice brothers, ignoring the class system separating the four clans of rodents in their farmhouse, befriend a lower class mouse and form a team to fight cats. (Juv Fic)
Kwitz, Mary DeBall - Shadow Over Mousehaven Manor. Minabell Mouse's animal friends come to her rescue when she becomes ensnarled with the Prairie Pirates, a gang of vicious rats determined to take over the mouse family's ancestral home, Mousehaven Manor. (Juv Fic SF)
Lawson, Robert - Ben and Me. Benjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries. (Juv Fic)
Leonard, Larry - Far Walker. Cast out by his fellow lemmings because he is so different, David embarks on a journey to discover why he was born and how he can be accepted, meeting several creatures along the way who challenge or aid him. (Juv Fic SF)
Lisle, Janet Taylor - Forest. Twelve-year-old Amber's invasion of an organized forest community of squirrels starts a war between humans and beasts, despite the protests of an unconventional and imaginative squirrel named Woodbine. (Juv Fic)
Merrill, Jean - Please Don't Eat My Cabin. Adam's aunt accepts the other animals he tames but hesitates about the baby porcupine because porcupines have been eating parts of her cabin. (Juv Fic)
O'Brien, Robert C. - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. When mouse widow Mrs. Frisby needs advice, she consults the rats who live under the rose bush who tell her of their escape from a laboratory where experimentation had made them literate and of the brave death of her husband. See also Racso and the Rats of NIMH and R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Leslie Conly. (Juv Fic SF)
Oke, Jeanette - Pordy's Prickly Problem. Enjoy the prickly adventures of shy, young Pordy the porcupine as she learns that to have a friend, you must first be one. (Juv Fic)
Oke, Jeanette - Prairie Dog Town. Curious Flick learns many valuable lessons, especially about telling the truth, as he discovers all the excitements and dangers for a youngster growing up in Prairie Dog Town. (Juv Fic)
Pratchett, Terry - The Amazing Maurice and His
Educated Rodents. A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange
boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong
town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king. (Juv Fic SF)
Pullman, Phillip - I Was a Rat! A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat. (Juv Fic)
Rylant, Cynthia - Gooseberry Park. When a storm separates Stumpy the squirrel from her newborn babies, her animal friends come to the rescue. (Juv Fic)
Seidler, Tor - A Rat's Tale. When two young rats from different socio-economic levels meet, their true love must endure adventures, family disputes and the discovery of their own strengths before their life together can begin. See also The Revenge of Randal Reese-Rat. (Juv Fic)
Sharp, Margery - The Rescuers. When a Norwegian poet must be rescued from prison, three mice - Miss Bianca, Bernard, and Nils - hop into action. See also the Miss Bianca series. (Juv Fic)
Spires, Elizabeth - The Mouse of Amherst. When she moves into Emily Dickinson's bedroom, Emmaline the mouse discovers her own talent for poetry. (Juv Fic)
Stevenson, James - Oliver, Clarence, and Violet. Oliver, a beaver, decides to build a ship and leave his pond to look for greener pastures, but finds that all his animal friends want to accompany him. (Juv Fic)
Umansky, Kaye - Pongwiffy. What's a witch to do? How can Pongwiffy cope with a gang of Goblins, a sassy rodent assistant, and the Witches' Coven, all while she's responsible for baking Sourmuddle's 200th birthday cake? See also Pongwiffy and the Goblin's Revenge. (Juv Fic SF)
Wallace, Bill - Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge. After telling her zoologist father he must get rid of all the homeless animals he keeps at their house or she'll never win the sixth-grade class presidency, Liz makes a surprising discovery. (Juv Fic)
White, E.B. - Stuart Little. An adventurous and heroic little mouse, with very human qualities, searches for his lost friend, the lovely bird Margalo. (Juv Fic)
Willard, Dale C. - The Linnet's Tale. When the residents of Tottensea Burrows are threatened, Merchanty, a daring field mouse, risks everything to rescue his friends and neighbors. (YA Fic)
Zindel, Paul - Rats. When mutant
rats threaten to take over Staten Island, now a huge landfill,
fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure
out how to stop them. (YA Fic)
