THE MOUSEHUNTER

Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B37557

English Summary/英文概要： Strange things are afoot in the mousehunting port of Old Town.
One dark night, a pirate is washed ashore with a box tied around his lifeless neck. It bears a warning to Isiah Lovelock, the town’s most prominent mouse collector. The message comes from Mousebeard, the most feared pirate on the Seventeen Seas. Soon Emiline, mousekeeper to Lovelock’s collection (which includes the rare Sharpclaw Mouse, Nosferatu Mouse, and Moose Mouse), is pitched aboard Captain Drewshank’s ship to hunt Mousebeard.
But who is Mousebeard really? And what hidden motives drive Lovelock’s fury? Emiline must find answers in a world of spies, ship battles and sea monsters; a world where the Nosferatu Mouse flits at night, the Howling Moon Mouse haunts exotic islands and the Cadaver Mouse sniffs out dying sailors . . .

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 老镇捕鼠区域怪事连连。
一个月黑的夜晚，一位海盗被水冲刷到岸边，脖子里还系着一个盒子。盒子上刻着一句给亿丝•拉夫洛克（Isiah Lovelock），本镇赫赫有名的老鼠收藏家的警告。消息来源是，十七海域最让人畏惧的海盗。不久之后，艾米琳（Emiline），拉夫洛克收藏品的保护者誓言要乘船去杀掉恶魔。
但是恶魔的真面目究竟是谁？什么不为人知的动机惹恼了拉夫洛克？艾米琳在间谍、船战和海怪的世界找寻答案。那是一个吸血鼠夜晚飞行、鬼吼的月亮鼠魂牵梦萦以及加达夫鼠嗅出垂死水手的世界...(兼职翻译-夏佳佳)

Awards/获奖情况：每周出版人（Publishers Weekly）：在海盗、间谍以及贪婪的老鼠收集者横行的世界，12岁的艾米琳（Emiline）明白她必须要勇敢保护她最重要的东西即她的宠物鼠波特莉（Portly）；她像老鼠负责人将老鼠分门别类；以及她的朋友斯科拉切斯特（Scratcher.）。艾米琳身陷当地最凶狠的海盗和一个富裕老鼠收集师的危险封建时期。作者是第一次出书，每一章开头都介绍了不同种类的老鼠。尽管一些问题始终得不到答案，它们很容易就被解开。艾米琳的父母在哪里？为什么老鼠每天有？它们不会被认为是冒险故事，麦尔威（Milway）的生活很精彩。艾米琳个性活跃、聪明诚实，而她的海盗朋友都很粗鲁。更多冒险将会继续，请读者耐心等候。
贝斯•L•梅斯特（Beth L. Meister），密尔沃基市犹太日学校，《学校图书馆》刊物：12岁的艾米琳为世上最富有最有权力的老鼠收藏师拉夫洛克卖命。当她帮他照料动物，她梦想着成为一名捕鼠者，周游世界寻找奇异物种。当拉夫洛克雇佣德福林船长去抓弄沉他船的海盗头目，艾米琳跑来加入了她的队伍。她和她的新朋友发现自己陷入了拉夫洛克对付海盗头目的阴谋。通过故事发展，艾米琳意识到其他人物以及他们的动机，她成长起来，开始分辨是非，然后她看透拉夫洛克的真面目和臭名昭著的海盗头目的优点。麦尔威创造了一个迷人的世界，充满了不同颜色、脾性、能力的老鼠。文中引入了新的生物以及大量的信息。读者们将会尽情欣赏故事的行动、追逐和情节曲折发展，并且期待续集。

In a world of pirates, spies and greedy mouse collectors, 12-year-old Emiline knows she must fiercely protect what’s most important: her pet mouse, Portly; the assortment of mice she tends as mousekeeper; and her friend, Scratcher. Then Emiline gets caught in the middle of a dangerous feud between the most feared pirate on the Seventeen Seas and a wealthy, underhanded mouse collector. Suddenly, everything she holds dear is in danger. Before each chapter, debut author Milway amusingly introduces different species of mice (the Magnetical Mouse, a must for sailors, "has a bulletlike nose that always points due north"). Although some questions remain unanswered (Where are Emiline’s parents? Why are mice the animals du jour?), they are easily disregarded as the adventure unfolds and Milway’s colorful if unlikely heroes encounter sea serpent–like Graks, Howling Moon Mice and prized but forbidden Golden Mice. Emiline is feisty, clever and loyal, while the pirates she befriends are all bark and little bite. More adventures seem to await Emiline in future books, and readers, having gotten to know the hard-nosed, softhearted pirates and their unusual mice, will be glad. Final illus., also by Milway, not seen by PW. Ages 10–up. (Feb.) ---From Publishers Weekly

Grade 4–6—Twelve-year-old Emiline Orelia works for Isiah Lovelock, one of the richest and most powerful mouse collectors in the world. While she tends to his extensive menagerie, she dreams of becoming a mousehunter, traveling the world in search of rare and exotic species. When Lovelock hires Captain Devlin Drewshank to capture the pirate Mousebeard, who sank his merchant ship, Emiline runs away and joins his crew. She and her new friend, Scratcher, find themselves in the midst of Lovelock’s plot against Mousebeard. Emiline grows throughout the story in her awareness of the other characters and their motivations, and in her perceptions of the shades of gray between good and evil, as she sees Lovelock as a scheming traitor and finds redeeming qualities in the notorious Mousebeard. Milway has created an atmospheric and engaging world filled with hundreds of varieties of mice with different coloring, temperaments, and abilities. New creatures are introduced both within the text and in pages with information and illustrations from The Mousehunter’s Almanac interspersed between chapters. Readers will enjoy the action, chases, and plot twists, and will look forward to the sequel that’s sure to follow.---Beth L. Meister, Milwaukee Jewish Day School, WI, From School Library Journal

About the Author/作者介绍： 亚历克斯•麦尔威（Alex Milway）1978年出生于赫里福德郡。他上完美院之后，在杂志出版业干过许多年，最终决定写书。他目前和女友住在水晶宫殿，还有一只叫做米罗的猫咪。

Alex Milway was born in 1978 in Hereford. After finishing art school and spending a number of years in magazine publishing, he finally managed to finish a book. He now lives in Crystal Palace with his girlfriend and a curly haired cat called Milo.

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