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  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

 

 

 


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