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  Jeremy shot out from under the table. The lady cook screeched and dropped her case, which crashed to the floor. An assortment of shiny, sharp kitchen knives—large and small—sprayed into the air and showered down all around Jeremy. He stopped still in his tracks.

  Henry jumped out from under the stove. “Run Jeremy, run!”

  Henry attempted to back up into the shadows again, but his legs felt heavy and wouldn’t obey. The room began to swirl in front of his eyes as Jeremy stayed frozen to the same spot, surrounded by knives.

  Thwap! Whop! Whap! The familiar sound of a broom came close to Henry’s head, blowing his whiskers back. Jeremy sprang in and out of Henry’s view as he scampered, hopped, and skittered away from the attacking broom.

  “Stop, you’ll kill ’im!” Henry heard the woman shriek.

  “That’s the idea, milady!” the man shouted.

  “Don’t kill ’em, poor things. Let’s trap ’em, and I’ll trot ’em off tuh the park to set ’em free.”

  GIGI PRIEBE is a mother of three; the founder of Stepping Stones, an award-winning children’s museum in Norwalk, Connecticut; and the author of The Adventures of Henry Whiskers, the first in her middle grade series. When she is not writing—or rewriting—she is a philanthropic advisor and community volunteer in Fairfield County, Connecticut, where she lives with her husband, a cat named Tigger, a dog named Clover, and probably some mice. Visit her online at www.gigipriebe.com.

  DANIEL DUNCAN is an illustrator living in the UK who creates most of his work in an old stable-turnedstudio. His work takes inspiration from cinema, old photos, and sports. He graduated from Middlesex University with First Class Honours, receiving a BA in Illustration. He was highly commended by Macmillan for the 2013 Children’s Picture Book Illustration competition, as well as being short-listed for the 2014 AOI Illustration Awards for the children’s books new talent category.

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  First Aladdin paperback edition January 2017

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  ISBN 978-1-4814-6575-5 (hc)

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