Fleabee's Fortune is the first book in the Deptford Mouselets Series by Robin Jarvis

Robin Jarvis

Robin Jarvis is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice – and Tudor times...

 (first published in 2004).

Synopsis

The story, taking place in the year before the events of The Dark Portal

The Dark Portal

The Dark Portal is the first book in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis . It was a runner-up for the 1989 Smarties Book Prize.-Plot summary:...

, is about a young ratgirl named Fleabee, who is unlike the rest of her kind. She is gentle and does not want to harm anything. But the festival of the First Blood is approaching, when young ratlings must murder by midnight or be killed themselves. And so Fleabee has to make a difficult choice.