Joe Rat
By: Mark Barratt ; [illustrations, Chris Priestley]
Contributors: Priestley, Chris, 1958-
Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781862302181
Subjects: Sewerage; Fiction; History
Description: In the dark underbelly of Victorian London a boy named Joe scavenges for scraps in the rat-infested sewers of the East End. Viciously exploited by the woman he knows as Mother - a monstrous criminal mastermind - Joe scrapes a living in a city where no one can be trusted. Then a chance encounter with a runaway girl and a 'madman' turns Joe's world upside down.