Yep. It was just a snippet in Wolf Star (http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Star-Claidi-Journals-Tanith/dp/0142301523/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6611437-5333616?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182371299&sr=8-1). It is a kids book and the second part of the trilogy, but I wish the author would have saved the idea and made a longer more adult novel out of it, as there were a not of neat things like moving rooms, humanoid dolls, and of course altered animals, like the giant flying rats.