Joe Rat
by Mark Barratt
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In the dark, dank sewers of Victorian London, a boy known as Joe Rat scrounges for valuables which he gives to "Mother," a criminal mastermind who considers him a favorite, but a chance meeting with a runaway girl and "the Madman" transforms all their lives.Tags
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In Victorian England, a young teen called Joe Rat survives by trolling the sewers for trash. He has his little niche in Mother's criminal empire, and knows he will never get out. Then he meets a young girl fleeing through the slum streets, and a madman living in a crumbling mansion who change what he thinks of people and himself.
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- London, England, UK
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- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Children's Books, Kids, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 823.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900-
- LCC
- PZ7 .B2742 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
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