The Christmas Rat Author: Avi
	Book Information Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. Book Type: Paperback Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 9780439296090 - ISBN-10: 0439296099 Publication Date: 2001 Pages: 135 Book Reviews

The week before Christmas starts off cold, dull, and lonely for Eric, with none of his friends around and both his parents working overtime at their stores. When an exterminator arrives to set off a smoke bomb in his apartment, Eric welcomes the diversion, and soon finds himself enlisted in the antivermin war conducted by this eclectic and ultimately terrifying character, who calls himself Anje, short for Anjela Gabrail. Instructed to help trap and kill a rat hiding in the basement storage room, Eric finds himself gradually shifting sides and plotting to protect the rat, despite a death threat from the exterminator.