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1	->''Like their age old enemies, mice too can be consumed by curiosity.''
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3	Pedlar is a young yellow-necked mouse who lives in Hedgerow. When he reaches a certain age, Pedlar decides to leave his family to go on a journey to live at the mysterious, far-off place known only as "the House".
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5	''House of Tribes'' is a 1995 book by Creator/GarryKilworth. It's a fantasy book about mice.
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8	!!This book provides examples of:
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10	* HumansAreSmelly: Tinker thinks that nudniks are unhygenic because they can't lick themselves well like mice can.
11	* HumansByAnyOtherName: Mice call humans "nudniks".
12	* HypocriticalHumor: Tinker claims to hate humans but is always talking about them.
13	* IronicName: Every single member of the mouse tribe "Invisibles" has that kind of a name; Hearallthings (deaf), Goingdownfast (an excellent swimmer), Ferocious (the meekest one), etc.
14	* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Flegm's]] last words are "Push on, he says. I couldn't push a spr-" His friend is noted to spend the rest of his life wondering what the last word was going to be. "Sprout? Spring? Sprocket?"
15	* MeaningfulName: Justified as mice aren't named until they display traits. For example, Pedlar is named for his quirk of trading food with others.
16	* MouseWorld: ''House Of Tribes'' shows life entirely from the perspective of rodents living in Britain. To them, even a single house is mysterious.
17	* UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart: The protagonists are all mice, while one of the antagonists is a mean dirty old murderous rat.

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