'I should level with you from the beginning. This isn't one of those girl-longs-for-pet, girl-gets-pet sort of stories. I'm not really into animals. So when Minnie first moved in, I didn't think, oooh, a little mouse, how cute. I thought, oh great! Something else for me to sort out . . .'
Micky's mum is a terrible worrier. Her dad's away. So when Micky realises there's a mouse in the house, she has to remove it - fast! Micky's best friend Kerry says that mousetraps are instruments of torture. But then Max Grimes, the new boy at school, has an idea . . .