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Author : Robert J. Snetsinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ratcatcher's Child written by Robert J. Snetsinger and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamela Rushby
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1743099762
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Ratcatcher's Daughter written by Pamela Rushby and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable story about a little-known tragedy in Australian history. It's 1900. thirteen-year-old Issy McKelvie leaves school and starts her first job - very reluctantly - as a maid in an undertaking establishment. She thinks this is about as low as you can go. But there's worse to come. Issy becomes an unwilling rat-catcher when the plague - the Black Death - arrives in Australia. Issy loathes both rats and her father's four yappy, snappy, hyperactive rat-killing terriers. But when her father becomes ill it's up to Issy to join the battle to rid the city of the plague-carrying rats. 'A brilliant and richly evocative insight into a fascinating and little-known aspect of our past.' -- Jackie French, Australian Children's Laureate.
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006197515X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents written by Terry Pratchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnegie Medal Winner * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age * VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * Book Sense Pick The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets.... Set in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world's most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper—or rats—the same way again!
Author : Colin Cotterill
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 161695826X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Rat Catchers' Olympics written by Colin Cotterill and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow is already rife with controversy, but when a Lao athlete is accused of murder, it escalates into a full blown international incident. In the twelfth entry to the series, Dr. Siri Paiboun and his quirky team of misfits are on the case in a city and country foreign to them, yet familiar in its corruption of justice. 1980: The People’s Democratic Republic of Laos is proud to be competing in its first-ever Olympics. Of course, half the world is boycotting the Moscow Summer Olympic Games to protest the Soviet Union’s recent invasion of Afghanistan, but that has made room for athletes from countries that are usually too small or underfunded to be competitive—like Laos. Ex-national coroner of Laos Dr. Siri Paiboun may be retired, but he and his wife, Madame Daeng, would do just about anything to have a chance to visit Moscow, so Siri finagles them a trip by getting them hired as medical advisers to the Olympians. Most of the athletes are young and innocent village people who have never worn running shoes, much less imagined anything as marvelous as the Moscow Olympic Village. As the competition heats up, however, Siri begins to suspect that one of the athletes is not who he says he is. Fearing a conspiracy, Siri and his friends investigate, liaising in secret with Inspector Phosy back home in Laos to see if the man might be an assassin. Siri’s progress is derailed when a Lao Olympian is accused of murder. Now in the midst of a murky international incident, Dr. Siri must navigate not one but two paranoid government machines to make sure justice is done.
Author : Will Allen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1933392460
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The War on Bugs written by Will Allen and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the start, farmers and consumers opposed the marketers' noxious shill. But more than a century of collusion among advertisers, editors, scientists, large-scale farmers, government agencies - and even Dr. Seuss - convinced most farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, and, more recently, genetically modified organisms." "Akin to seminal works on the topic like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink's 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, The War on Bugs - richly illustrated with dozens of original advertisements and promotions - details both the chemical industry's relentless efforts and the recurring waves of resistance by generations of consumers, farmers, and activists against toxic food, a struggle that continues today but with deep roots in the long rise of industrial agriculture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Emilie Poulsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In the Child's World written by Emilie Poulsson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emilie Poulsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book In the Child's World: Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary Schools and Homes written by Emilie Poulsson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vic Parker
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1482431033
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Rat Catcher and Other Stories written by Vic Parker and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be more terrifying than a city crawling with rats? In “The Ratcatcher,” a story eerily similar to the legend of the Piped Piper, readers are taken to an old German town where that’s exactly the problem. However, by the end of the tale, it’s not just the rats that have disappeared—it’s all the town’s children! This and other terrible tales are accompanied by full-color images and illustrations that add some beauty to otherwise dark literary worlds. The fire of readers’ imaginations will be lit as they encounter unforgettable storytelling in "Gold-tree and Silver-tree," "The Devil and his Grandmother," and "The King Who Would See Paradise."
Author : Lisa T. Sarasohn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142144139X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Getting Under Our Skin written by Lisa T. Sarasohn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How vermin went from being part of everyone's life to a mark of disease, filth, and lower status. For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, and rats were universal scourges, as pervasive as hunger or cold, at home in both palaces and hovels. But with the spread of microscopic close-ups of these creatures, the beginnings of sanitary standards, and the rising belief that cleanliness equaled class, vermin began to provide a way to scratch a different itch: the need to feel superior, and to justify the exploitation of those pronounced ethnically—and entomologically—inferior. In Getting Under Our Skin, Lisa T. Sarasohn tells the fascinating story of how vermin came to signify the individuals and classes that society impugns and ostracizes. How did these creatures go from annoyance to social stigma? And how did people thought verminous become considered almost a species of vermin themselves? Focusing on Great Britain and North America, Sarasohn explains how the label "vermin" makes dehumanization and violence possible. She describes how Cromwellians in Ireland and US cavalry on the American frontier both justified slaughter by warning "Nits grow into lice." Nazis not only labeled Jews as vermin, they used insecticides in the gas chambers to kill them during the Holocaust. Concentrating on the insects living in our bodies, clothes, and beds, Sarasohn also looks at rats and their social impact. Besides their powerful symbolic status in all cultures, rats' endurance challenges all human pretentions. From eighteenth-century London merchants anointing their carved bedsteads with roasted cat to repel bedbugs to modern-day hedge fund managers hoping neighbors won't notice exterminators in their penthouses, the studies in this book reveal that vermin continue to fuel our prejudices and threaten our status. Getting Under Our Skin will appeal to cultural historians, naturalists, and to anyone who has ever scratched—and then gazed in horror.
Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1405911166
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Ratcatcher (A Roald Dahl Short Story) written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ratcatcher is a short, sharp, distrubing story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In The Ratcatcher, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a ratcatcher has a most unusual way of dealing with these pests . . . The Ratcatcher is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a dish that baffles the police; a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants; the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach; and others. 'The absolute master of the twist in the tale.' (Observer ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Jessica Hynes. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Author : Maggie Jankuloska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925227963
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Rat-Catcher's Apprentice written by Maggie Jankuloska and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's 1665. Rats have infested homes and alleys in Marie Perrin's provincial French town. Twelve-year-old Marie is set to become a maid, although she hungers for adventure. However, one mistake alters her fate and as punishment she is forced to apprentice for an intimidating rat-catcher. Away from her parents and twin brother, and handling gnarly rat traps under Gustave Renard's unusual mentorship, Marie must overcome a new set of challenges which come after a plague enters her town. Are rats responsible for the spread of the illness? Can Marie find a way out of the bubbling danger around her?"--Publisher's description.
Author : William Robinson
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 1000142809
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Urban Entomology written by William Robinson and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of entomology in the human environment. There is particular emphasis on control and biology of pests. The book provides students of entomology with a clear theoretical and practical foundation in household and structural insect pests.;This book should be of interest to senior undergraduates and masters students in entomology; pest control workers; researchers in the pesticide industry.
Author : Diane Samuels
Publisher : Heinemann Library
ISBN 13 : 9780435017064
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Kindertransport written by Diane Samuels and published by Heinemann Library. This book was released on 2009 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport.
Author : Terence Blacker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0763669024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Twyning written by Terence Blacker and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a harsh and dangerous world, a rat and a boy must each choose their way as their fates become inextricably linked. Efren is a young rat, unnoticed and timid among the kingdom of rats living in the London sewers. When the king dies, leaving the kingdom in upheaval, only Efren dares to journey into the human world, where he discovers a human doctor’s plan to destroy London’s entire rat population. Meanwhile, Peter, otherwise known as Dogboy, does odd jobs for both the scheming doctor and the town ratcatcher. But his gift for understanding animals — even rats — forces him to decide where his allegiances truly lie. Dogboy and Efren, along with the waifish girl Caz and her pet rat, Malaika, set out to test the strengths of friendship and loyalty against the gut-wrenching cruelties of the world.
Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374350558
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)
Download or read book More About Boy written by Roald Dahl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Puffin Books, 2008.
Author : Zai Whitaker
Publisher : Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1933605103
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Kali and the Rat Snake written by Zai Whitaker and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kali's father is a snake catcher - the best in the village. Kali knows that is really something to be proud of, but at school he sometimes gets embarrassed. The other children seem to think there is something very strange about having a snake catcher for a father and eating things like fried termites for a snack. Plus, Kali is the teacher's pet. How will he ever make friends?
Author : James Rodwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rat written by James Rodwell and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
