Tom Kitten happens upon the rats' quarters and is nearly made into a roly-poly pudding for their dinner.

"I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'... When it comes to openers, though, the best in my view has to be the first line of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier: 'This is the saddest story

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Learning about your new pet-what they eat and what they need for their new home.

Eleven years after the cruel Killdeer took over the Catacombs far beneath the human's Trillium City, Juniper Belancourt, assisted by Vincent and Victor Nightshade, leads a maverick band of rats to escape and establish their own city.

The further adventures of the intelligent young rat Racso and his friends Christopher and Isabella as they try to ensure the survival of their secret community in Thorn Valley after its accidental discovery by two human children.

"Early readers will learn about the unique biological adaptations of rats through carefully leveled text and photo illustrations. Includes glossary and index."--

Rat tries to get the fat cat off the mat and back to his usual resting place in the vat.

"The narrator and Pat the Rat prevent Nat the Cat from taking a nap."--

A lavender rat that has escaped from a laboratory, and a lonely boy whose parents are scientists, meet on an orbiting space station, communicate by email, and ultimately find themselves in need of each other's help and friendship. A literate lavender rat, fleeing from an experiment, accidentally stows away on a space station. In addition to the scientists, technicians, and astronauts on board, there is a lonely young boy who attracts the rat's attention,...

"Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes and supersized intelligence, escapes into the world outside the lab where he, aware of humankind's cruelty in the name of science, has the potential to sire a rodent army capable of viciously overwhelming the human race."--