The next morning is the Great Spring Celebration, an important holiday for the mice when those who have come of age are given mousebrasses, magical talismans that help guide them through their lives.

Unable to save himself, he tells Piccadilly to run for his life. Whilst eavesdropping on a conversation between the evil being and his rat lieutenant, Morgan, Albert is captured and taken away to be killed by Jupiter. After hours of wandering they find themselves in the altar chamber of Jupiter. He meets a young city mouse named Piccadilly who is also lost and the two quickly become friends. One mouse named Albert Brown is drawn into the sewers by dark enchantments on the grill in the house's basement. No one has ever seen Jupiter, not even his subjects, and rumours abound as to who or what he truly is. The only problem they have is a fear of the vicious rats in the sewers below who worship a mysterious living god called Jupiter.

Plot Ī community of mice lives an idyllic existence in an old empty house in the London borough of Deptford. In 2000, it was published by SeaStar Books in the United States and given the Booklist Editors' Choice designation. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Macdonald & Company in 1989, and was a runner-up for that year's Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. Her search takes her into the sewers of Deptford where, with the help of her friends and family, she must face an army of evil rats and their living god, a mysterious being known as Jupiter. The first book in The Deptford Mice trilogy and Jarvis's debut novel, it follows the story of Audrey Brown, a mouse girl who is looking for her missing father. Urn:oclc:43936679 Republisher_date 20121210091135 Republisher_operator Scandate 20121207040119 Scanner Dark Portal is a dark fantasy novel for children by British author Robin Jarvis. OL5720933W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 86.19 Pages 266 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0340788623 Urn:lcp:darkportal000jarv:lcpdf:b9008ebd-52f6-497a-aa41-0811a496ff6c Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier darkportal000jarv Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4pk1pj6p Isbn 1587170213 Lccn 00026517 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL6780507M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:00:47 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA153310 Boxid_2 BWB220140829 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier

The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis