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Synopsis
With only a week to go before Christmas, Eric suddenly has a change of heart towards ridding the building of his rodent guest, but Anju Gabrail, an overly enthusiastic exterminator, is determined to get his job done and so has other plans in mind.
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AVI's extraordinary range of books include fantasies, sports stories, tales of suspense and terror, historical adventures, and a graphic novel, City of Light, City of Dark, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Other titles among his forty-five books are Poppy (Boston Globe-Horn Book Award), The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, (Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award), and Nothing but the Truth (Newbery Honor). He is also the creator of the Breakfast Serials stories by well-known writers which appear, chapter by chapter, in hundreds of newspapers across America, and now have more than forty million devoted weekly readers.
He and his family live in Denver, Colorado.
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Gr. 4-7. 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. Readers can develop their own theories about Anje, but most will remain confused about whether he is indeed the Angel Gabriel (an appended note briefly discusses Gabriel's presence in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions), or a fantastic but unholy apparition, or a figment of Eric's imagination. Each answer leaves unexplained questions. Although the book is unsatisfying as a Christmas story, readers who enjoy suspense will find this a fast-moving, mysterious, and unsettling tale. Carolyn Phelan
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Gore, Leonid (illustrator). A boy, a rat, and an exterminator -- three players in a game of survival. Christmas vacation is supposed to be a blast. Or so Eric thinks. But with all his friends either sick in bed or out of town, Eric's getting more bored by the hour. Then he meets Anje Gabrail, exterminator. Anje's got all the normal stuff an exterminator needs -- roach powders and smoke bombs -- but he also carries some extra equipment: a crossbow and metal-tipped arrows that can penetrate concrete walls and will annihilate any creature with which they come in contact. Anje's number one target? Rats. To Eric, this guy is creepy but fascinating. So, with nothing better to do, he joins Anje on a mission to destroy the rat living in the basement of his apartment building. But as Christmas Day draws nearer and the temperature outside keeps dropping, things in the basement go from weird to deadly. And Eric learns how valuable life truly is. Seller Inventory # CIN0689838425G
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Gore, Leonid (illustrator). A boy, a rat, and an exterminator -- three players in a game of survival. Christmas vacation is supposed to be a blast. Or so Eric thinks. But with all his friends either sick in bed or out of town, Eric's getting more bored by the hour. Then he meets Anje Gabrail, exterminator. Anje's got all the normal stuff an exterminator needs -- roach powders and smoke bombs -- but he also carries some extra equipment: a crossbow and metal-tipped arrows that can penetrate concrete walls and will annihilate any creature with which they come in contact. Anje's number one target? Rats. To Eric, this guy is creepy but fascinating. So, with nothing better to do, he joins Anje on a mission to destroy the rat living in the basement of his apartment building. But as Christmas Day draws nearer and the temperature outside keeps dropping, things in the basement go from weird to deadly. And Eric learns how valuable life truly is. Seller Inventory # CIN0689838425VG
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