by Avi
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020
www.SimonandSchuster.com
Copyright © 2000 by Avi
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
Book design by Ann Bobco
Jacket illustration copyright © 2000 by Leonid Gore
Jacket design by Ann Bobco
The text of this book is set in Adobe Caslon.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Avi, 1937-
The Christmas rat / Avi.
p. cm.
Summary: Alone in his apartment during Christmas vacation, eleven-year-old Eric finds himself caught in a battle between a strange exterminator and the rat he wants to kill.
ISBN 0-689-83842-5
ISBN 978-1-4814-4534-4 (eBook)
[1. Rats—Fiction. 2. Pests—Control—Fiction. 3. Apartment houses—Fiction. 4. Christmas—Fiction. 5. Angels—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.A953 Ch 2000
[Fic]—dc21 99-87429