The Girl Who Made a Mouse from Her Grandfather's Whiskers

In a distant future, a little girl named Anny makes toy mice out of scraps and dust. Anny has never seen a real mouse, just as she’s never seen the planet her family came from many generations ago. All she knows is her home, Tsedt: an isolated village of human colonists’ descendants and their friendly helper robots.
But then one day the Amau arrive in Tsedt: plastic people with luminous eyes, intent on taking young humans to the distant city of Harbor to be educated. It’s not long before Anny is flown away to a place unlike any she’s seen before.

Kenneth Hunter Gordon answers to "Kenny," generally, and only pulls out the Big Name when no other option is available. He feels like a little kid much of the time, and thinks that might be his superpower. He is a musician as well as a writer, and takes the same approach to both, to wit: it's gotta swing. He lives in Salt Lake City with his family. Prior to that he lived in Los Angeles and saw fires and floods and earthquakes and riots. Any day you're not driving home from work between pillars of smoke is a good day.