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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Discworld (for young readers) #1 / 6
by Terry Pratchett
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld (for young readers) #1) by Terry Pratchett
★ 7.80 / 181

Imagine a million clever rats.
Rats that don't run.
Rats that fight...

Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats – rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers...

But when they reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars.

The educated rats must learn a new word.

EVIL.

It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world down there. And that might only be the start...

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Category: Fantasy, Young Adult, Carnegie Medal, Humor
Release date: November 2001
Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (1948–2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of about 40 volumes. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (The Colour of Magic) was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-audience novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.

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Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and has sold more than 85 million books worldwide in 37 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read non-US author in the US.

Pratchett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.

In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, and filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66.

Photo: Terry Pratchett at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow. Picture by Szymon Sokół. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Discworld (for young readers)

Series contains 6 primary works and has 6 total works. Current series reading order on below.

Main series Discworld

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld (for young readers) #1)
★ 7.80 / 181
The Wee Free Men (Discworld (for young readers) #2)
★ 8.20 / 223
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld (for young readers) #3)
★ 8.14 / 167
Wintersmith (Discworld (for young readers) #4)
★ 8.46 / 137
I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld (for young readers) #5)
★ 8.66 / 65
The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld (for young readers) #6)
★ 8.76 / 29


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