DICAMILLO, KATE

The story of of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea, a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and Miggery Sow, a serving girl who harbors an impossible wish.

Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-yearold Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger -- a real-life, very large tiger -- pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl

A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller