The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Not the first book in this series but then you don't have to read the first book to understand The Discworld. This amazing world where even the Pied Piper has a scam going...what...wait...a scam! On the Discworld, surely not!

Oh, but yes. Another off-beat adventure with more strange talking animals and in this case there's a talking cat, intelligent rats and a strange boy who isn't in charge because the animals have their tame boy working the scam for them.

Terry Pratchett wrote a few Discworld titles that are suitable for Young Adults and if you like this then by all means go and read the first in the series, The Colour of Magic. If you are not sure of the whole fantasy genre then a really good title to get you into this genre is surely Guards! Guards which was voted by the panel of Jennifer Burns' First Tuesday Book Club TV series on the ABC as a must read fantasy book.