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2) The rats
Author
Series
Rats trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time--suddenly, shockingly, horribly--the balance of power had shifted..."--Provided by publisher.
5) King Rat
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A London man is enrolled by the King of Rats to assassinate the Pied Piper of Hamelin who dethroned him. The man is Saul, whose rat mother joined humanity, making him immune to the piper's call. In his rat persona Saul eats garbage and climbs walls.
7) Class pets
Author
Series
Missy's super duper royal deluxe volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Missy wants to take home the class pets, but another girl, Tiffany, has already asked their teacher so Missy and her friend Oscar need to come up with a plan to make Tiffany change her mind.
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
Author
Series
Spy next door volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Dexter Drabner dreams of being a skateboarding-hero-spy, while contending with his nemesis at school, Millicent the bully--and when science teacher Mr. McFur's prized lab rat, Pretty, eats a piece of radioactive gamma broccoli and grows to the size of an elephant, he gets his chance to save the school from destruction.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton finds himself in the wild West, where he becomes involved in a showdown with the "wickedest" rat of Cactus City.
12) Loamhedge
Author
Series
Redwall volume 16
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
While a group of adventurers from Redwall seeks out the ancient abbey of Loamhedge in hopes of curing a young haremaid's paralysis, Redwall is besieged by vermin.
13) The plague
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small coastal city of Iran, Algeria, rats begin rising from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. And just as mysteriously as it appeared, the rodent problem seems to vanish. Shortly after, however, many local residents experience intense fevers and then perish--victims of the unseen menace of the bubonic plague. And as life in the town comes to a halt, the survivors attempt to come to terms with their own mortality and the...
14) Redwall
Author
Series
Redwall volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
Author
Series
Ratnip volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Ratnip, a pizza parlor rat and collector of shiny objects, traverses the city to return a lost cellphone to its rightful owner.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 10
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1424 Hamlin, Katerina reluctantly allies with the handsome but brash Steffan to protect herself and her city from formidable dangers--missing children, hordes of rats, a marauding beast, and her devious stepfather, the town's mayor.
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