“I was a rat!”

So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge newspaper is sure of it. A lucrative fairground freak? He is to Mr. Tapscrew. A championship wriggler and a budding thief? That’s the hope of Billy and his gang. A victim of “Rodent Delusion”? So says the hospital doctor.

Or just an ordinary small boy, though a little ratty in his habits? Only three people believe this version of the story. And it may take a royal intervention–and a bit of magic–to convince the rest of the world. . . .

Related: England (UK), Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

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• ISBN: 9780385409797
• Author: Pullman, Philip
• Published: 1999, Doubleday & Co Inc.,U.S.
• Themes: Friendship, growing up, manners, Self-Discovery
• Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
• No. of pages: 169