Redwall — Brian Jacques

In the glorious tradition of Watership Down comes a powerful tale of fantasy, courage, and epic adventure -- the heart-soaring story of a wondrous quest to recover a legendary lost weapon ... and of a bumbling young apprentice monk named Matthias, mousekind's most unlikely hero.

War erupts in the Summer of the Late Rose, shattering the peace that had reigned in Mossflower since the magnificent mouse, Martin the Warrior, laid down his mighty sword generations earlier. Now a dark cloud of doom and despair hangs over the ancient stone abbey of Redwall. Cluny the Scourge -- the one-eyed embodiment of evil, the most savage bilge rat that ever jumped from ship to shore -- has arrived with his rodent horde to conquer ... and to destroy.