The Christmas Rat

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Summary: bizarre and NOT angelic!
Review: I have so many problems with this story that I don't know how to begin. Why did Avi cast the Angel Gabriel in the role of a loathsome, threatening exterminator? I'm no fan of the soppy, wimpy angels in many recent books for children and adults, but Gabriel surely shouldn't be evil! Why doesn't the boy tell his parents about the stranger who is threatening his life? Why has this boy--an inoffensive, average child--been singled out by an angel for such a brutal lesson? Would any angel reward the saving of a life with a crossbow bolt in the leg?

For a far, far better story featuring an angel character, read Madeline L'Engle's A Wind in the Door.

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Summary: Good Enough for the Weekend
Review: The book I read was The Christmas Rat,Eric wasthe main character in this story.The biggest problem in this story is that Anje[Anjela] is trying to kill Eric's little furry friend.Eric lived in a nice apartment but suddenly his apartment gets disrupted by Anje.Every living rodent and insect in his apartment is destroyed except for the christmas rat.My favorite part in this book was when Eric's dad found out that Anje wasn't apart of the exterminating buisness.And that's when Anje Wanted to watch the rodent die.This was a very good book and was writtenby a very good author,Avy.

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Summary: The Christmas Nightmare
Review: The book I read was The Christmas Rat,Eric wasthe main character in this story.The biggest problem in this story is that Anje[Anjela] is trying to kill Eric's little furry friend.Eric lived in a nice apartment but suddenly his apartment gets disrupted by Anje.Every living rodent and insect in his apartment is destroyed except for the christmas rat.My favorite part in this book was when Eric's dad found out that Anje wasn't apart of the exterminating buisness.And that's when Anje Wanted to watch the rodent die.This was a very good book and was writtenby a very good author,Avy.

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Summary: Good Enough for the Weekend
Review: The only reason I decided to read this book was because I needed something short for a school project. The whole weekend the book was in my hands. When I ate, when I walked around the house, and while I "watched" T.V. I read it until midnight, which is when I finished the book (just within a day). Although there are a few things I would change about the book (most people want to read it over the Christmas holiday, but its NOT a good Christmas book... Anje didnt the character of one of God's angels.... The riddle in the back of the book is REALLY hard to figure out ((by the way, if you read it, please help me on this one!!))), if you need a shirt book to do a project on, this one's a good one!

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Summary: The Christmas Rat
Review: This book was rreally great. I eccspecially liked the basement scenes. Anjela Gaibrail was a little spooky. This book was really , so I did a school book report on it.cool

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Summary: "I smell a Rat"
Review: Who else but creative genius Avi could craft such a spellbinding story with only a very average middle-schooler, an exterminator and a rat? In this harrowing tale, a young boy and an exterminator join forces to hunt down a rat which has been plaguing the child's apartment building. Engaged in a seek and destroy mission, Anjela Gabrail, aka The Angel Gabriel, enlists the boy to help oppose the rat, "or pay the penalty...So help me God." When the boy decides, however, that he would prefer to let the rat live, Anje turns on him. In a dark twist, the hunter becomes the hunted. Anje has a crossbow. Eric's in the dark. And it's Christmas. As an intellectual exercise for adults, The Christmas Rat receives my highest honors. As a lesson for budding adolescents, it is a compelling reminder Never Ever to talk to strangers. This book is recommended for readers ages nine to twelve - rest assured, not one will come away from this book untouched. For me only one aching questions remains: Why couldn't the boy tell his parents?