Squirrel is different. But not in the way he thinks.
Though he is just thirteen, Squirrel is the PetPost slave—
the last slave in the animal town of Bimmau. Every morning,
he puts on his PetPost uniform and delivers the mail for his
lazy mongoose boss. But when Squirrel swigs some
forbidden wine at a wedding, his mother's voice speaks to
him. 'Start your journey that leads to long-lost Brittle’s Key,' she urges. 'Go find, my son, your destiny.'
Brittle's Key—with the power to set him free and turn
anyone in the land into a slave—can be Squirrel's. But, to
find the key, he must find and sip three mysterious liquids.
With his friend Des and a crow, Azulfa, he sets off on a
dangerous quest. He travels from the walled city of bees
to the fireless mice tea-estate to the treacherous desert,
while fleeing the savage Kowa army and outsmarting the
vicious Colonel who wants the key for himself.
Will Squirrel succeed? For not only his fate, but also
the fate of the land hangs in the balance . . .