When I picked up Mousenet, I thought I was going to be reading about mice and computers. Somewhere around the middle of the book, it felt like the author switched to a book about how mice use computers to save the environment. Don't get me wrong - I understand and agree that we need to take care of the Earth. But if I wanted to read about climate change and going green, I would have read that book. I wanted to read about mice and computers, which is what the short description seemed to promise.Also, I never understood why Joey was so hostile toward Megan or why he thought she was a spy. And if I was a girl who had found out that my male step-second-cousin who I had never met before was rifling through my bedroom, I would be telling my parents immediately.By the time I closed the cover on Mousenet, I was left with the basic impression that Megan and her adorable mice were the sugar so that the reader would swallow the medicine of the importance of environmental awareness. I liked the story at the beginning. I was bored after about 1/4 of the book. The story is about an entire underground mouse world that is capable of using computers and accomplishing pretty sophisticated tasks (like changing global warming). They need a little human help. Specifically, they need Megan's tiny thumbtop computer mass produced. The problems Megan encountered dragged on way too long. The writing is not that interesting, and the one detail about Megan's crazy hair that the author mentions repeatedly drove me nuts. I think the book might have been better if the illustrations had not been included (the hair detail really comes out in the illustrations).
