title: Rat
author: Shuler, Priscilla B.
description: RAT is the coming of age story of an orphan boy born to an unknown woman of the streets - cast into an orphanage - taken in as a servant in a dockside Pub - taken aboard a trading ship - ending up in California at the height of the gold rush. Becoming wealthy, he travels and ends up in the South during the Civil War. From this point his destiny is met in his Savannah home.