Anton and Cecil: Cats on Track
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    [synopsis] => Terrible news has reached cat brothers Anton and Cecil: their rodent friend Hieronymus has been captured. Anton and Cecil must set out to rescue the mouse who once saved Anton's life.



 Boarding one of the monstrous machines the mice call "landships," the brothers travel to the Wild West. Along the way Cecil is tossed out onto the prairie by the train's conductor only to face bison, prairie dogs, and a boy who would make him a pet. Meanwhile, Anton meets a ferret friend who warns of stampeding herds, rattlesnakes, and fierce, enormous cats. Facing such danger can Anton and Cecil find the courage and wit to save Hieronymus?





   
	The adventurous cats who sailed the open seas in Anton and Cecil: Cats at Sea head west by train to rescue a missing mouse friend. With few clues, the two depend on the help of prairie dogs, bison, ferrets, and a wise lynx to solve the mystery of Hieronymus's whereabouts. Orange Prize-winner Valerie Martin is the author of eight acclaimed adult novels, including Property and The Confessions of Edward Day. She lives in Millbrook, New York. Her niece, Lisa Martin, has worked as an educator and children's poet and currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Chapter 1

 The Mouse Network



 A stiff breeze whooshed across the harbor at Lunenburg, setting the tall ships rocking against their moorings. Anton sat in the noonday sun next to the lighthouse, carefully cleaning his smooth gray fur. His brother Cecil sprawled next to him on the warm bricks, the white tuft on the end of his otherwise black tail flicking with amusement.



 "I'm just saying, it's odd," Cecil insisted. "I've never seen a lizard anywhere near as big as you've described. Are you sure it wasn't a dog you met on that island? A small cow, maybe?"



 Anton glared briefly at Cecil and returned to his cleaning. "Its name was Dave, and he told me he was a lizard. So yes, I'm sure."



 "Huh," Cecil said. "Where I come from, lizards are for eating."



 "Everything's for eating where you come from," Anton said.



 A dull white gull sailed up the path, looking down upon the two cats with tiny, red-rimmed eyes.



 "Ahoy, cats!" squawked the gull. "Is one of you called Seasick, and one Tantrum?"



 "No," called Anton uncertainly, staring up at the bird. "He's Cecil, and I'm Anton."



 "Close enough," said the gull, listing in the breeze. "Two mice back there, wanting to have a word with you. Say they have a message from a friend of some kind."



 Cecil sat fully upright. "Mice? Two mice want to talk to us?" He grinned, showing his teeth.



 Anton lifted his head, scanning the path. "I doubt it. You can't trust gulls, brother. Don't you know that yet?"



 The gull rolled his eyes. "Cats," he muttered. "Suit yourselves," he called, then flew back down the path and banked again, screeching once at a blueberry shrub on the hillside before diving swiftly away over the harbor.



 Two scraggly mice, one brown and one gray, emerged from under the shrub and made their way toward the lighthouse, dashing between rocks and tufts of grasses in little bursts.



 Anton glanced at Cecil. "Now, behave, all right? Let's hear them out."



 Cecil settled his girth next to Anton and licked his lips. "I always behave."



 The mice stopped a short distance away and huddled together, their whiskers quivering. The brown mouse nudged the gray one, who sat up on his hindquarters and addressed the cats.



 "We bring a message to the felines Weasel and Ant Farm from the great adventurer Hieronymus," squeaked the gray mouse.



 Anton gasped. He had heard nothing of his brave mouse friend's whereabouts for many months.



 "Our names are Cecil and Anton," growled Cecil. He turned to his brother.



 Anton shushed Cecil. "We are those cats," he said to the mice. "Go on."



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