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The Rat Queen - 9781536239782
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Product Details
Author:
Pete Hautman
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
400
Publisher:
Candlewick Press (September 10, 2024)
Language:
English
Audience:
Children/juvenile
Age Range:
9 to 12
Grade Level:
4th Grade to 7th Grade
ISBN-13:
9781536239782
ISBN-10:
153623978X
Weight:
12.5oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.25" x 1"
File:
RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T121402_156890315-20260705.xml
Folder:
RandomHouse
List Price:
$10.99
Country of Origin:
United States
Case Pack:
40
As low as:
$8.46
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
QuickShip:
Yes
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Candlewick
Overview
“Exemplary storytelling. . . . There are dark corners to explore and challenging lessons to be learned, but the overall effect is magical.” — Booklist (starred review)
For Annie’s tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It’s called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie’s inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague of rats threatens her small suburban town and the mystery of her birthright grows, Annie—caught in a cycle of purging her misdeeds—begins to stop growing. It is only when she travels to her family’s home country of Litvania to learn more about the burna that Annie uncovers the magnitude of the truth. Gripping and emotionally complex, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman’s inventive yarn for middle-grade readers draws on magical realism to explore coming-of-age and the path to moral responsibility.
For Annie’s tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It’s called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie’s inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague of rats threatens her small suburban town and the mystery of her birthright grows, Annie—caught in a cycle of purging her misdeeds—begins to stop growing. It is only when she travels to her family’s home country of Litvania to learn more about the burna that Annie uncovers the magnitude of the truth. Gripping and emotionally complex, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman’s inventive yarn for middle-grade readers draws on magical realism to explore coming-of-age and the path to moral responsibility.
