Ratcatcher's Daughter

Ratcatcher's Daughter

eBook (01 Apr 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A remarkable story about a little-known tragedy in Australian history. 'A brilliant and richly evocative insight into a fascinating and little-known aspect of our past.' Jackie French, Australian Children's Laureate It's 1900. thirteen-year-old Issy McKelvie leaves school and starts her first job - very reluctantly - as a maid in an undertaking establishment. She thinks this is about as low as you can go. But there's worse to come. Issy becomes an unwilling rat-catcher when the plague - the Black Death - arrives in Australia. Issy loathes both rats and her father's four yappy, snappy, hyperactive rat-killing terriers. But when her father becomes ill it's up to Issy to join the battle to rid the city of the plague-carrying rats. Ages 10+

Book information

ISBN: 9781743099766
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub date:
Number of pages: 240
Weight: -1g