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.
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.