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From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman comes a mysterious modern-day fairy tale about developing a moral compass—and the slippery nature of conscience.
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, Pete Hautman’s inventive yarn for middle-grade readers draws on magical realism to explore coming of age and the path to moral responsibility.
The price of "The Rat Queen (Hardcover Book)" at Downtown Comics in Castleton is USD $18.99.
The publisher of "The Rat Queen (Hardcover Book)" is Candlewick Press.
The genres of "The Rat Queen (Hardcover Book)" are Juvenile Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations, Juvenile Fiction - Family - Parents, and Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Values & Virtues.
"The Rat Queen (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "The Rat Queen (Hardcover Book)" is Pete Hautman.