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The Giant Rat of Sumatra: or Pirates Galore
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4.1 out of 5
Based on 64 Ratings and 19 Reviews

Book Description


A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog. Crouching like a tiger about to spring, her figurehead is a huge and ferocious rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes.

When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to Boston. Instead he encounters:

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Book Information
PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
BindingHardcover (9 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages208
ISBN-100060742380
ISBN-13978-0060742386
Publication Date02/01/2005
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About Sid Fleischman (Author) : The Newbery Award-winning author of The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman is surprised that he grew up to be a writer. "I had a childhood much like everyone else's," he writes in his newly published autobi... more
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About John Hendrix (Illustrator) : John Hendrix is a published illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of John Hendrix include Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Fr... more
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