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"Six colorful cats and their tiny rat friends work together to build a house" -- Provided by publisher. Six vibrant cats team up to build a house with some playful help from tiny rat friends. Young readers will enjoy the rhyming text, construction vehicles like bulldozers, cement trucks, and cranes, as they follow the ups and downs of the building process. Each reading reveals new details to explore, making it an engaging and fun experience.

The Specialist helps Alex defeat the Spellbinder after he uses a book to turn his friend, Mattie, into a rat.

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH,...

What will Cyril do when he discovers that his best friend is a rat and not another squirrel?

Ratnip, a pizza parlor rat and collector of shiny objects, traverses the city to return a lost cellphone to its rightful owner.

Ian Maloney's South Brooklyn Exterminating immediately takes its place among the plain-spoken, hilarious, and heartbreaking classics of American working-class fiction. It's a book about many things...Also, it's about rats. Lots and lots of rats. Jesus Mary and Joseph, all the rats. -- Publisher marketing.

When Ratnip and his sister Anchovy cannot find any pizza in the trashcans of the city, they gather their other siblings, Pepperoni, Marg, and Veggie, to make a whole pizza of their own.

When friends and roommates Bat, Cat, and Rat decide to take a vacation, they have trouble agreeing on a destination until Rat finds the perfect solution.

"It is Princess Harriet Hamsterbone to the rescue when Heady the hydra's egg is stolen, but her search leads her to a castle accessible only by a rat with a very long tail"--

"Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris 'make the good and noble choice' (as the king on his prized sardine can might recommend) and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies? And if he does, will he be ready for the consequences? With humor...