BOOK: The Christmas rat by Avi

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Avi._The Christmas rat._Scholastic, 2000 [0-439-33678-3]
It is Christmas vacation and it is colder than it has ever been in
years and Eric is bored until his parents ask him to let in the
exterminator.  The exterminator explains the dangers of rats and
gets Eric to join in a pact to kill them.  Together they find a rat in
Eric's apartment's basement but Eric decides to change sides and
wants to save the rat instead of killing it.  This puts him against the
exterminator who says anyone who saves rats is worse than the
rats themselves!  What will happen to Eric... what will happen to
the rat?  At the end of the book this 135 page there is an
explanation of the Angel Gabriel and how it's story was the basis
for this story.  I did not catch the symbolism, but it is a good story
full of suspense and emotions without it.

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