The twyning
By: Terence Blacker
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780763669027
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Group homes; Rats; Imaginary places; Orphans; Group homes for youth; Animal welfare; Fiction; Fantasy; Human-animal relationships
Description: "This is a story of courage, of sacrifice, and of survival. This is the story of a rat and a boy whose fates become inextricably linked as their two worlds collide. Eften, a bold young ratling, dares to journey above the underground rat kingdom, where he discovers Dr. Ross-Gibbon's plan to exterminate the rat population. Dogboy, assistant to Dr. Ross-Gibbon, is an abandoned thirteen-year-old with a gift for understanding animals. As war wages between the human world and the rat kingdom. Doyboy must decide where his allegiances truly lie."
Notes: Includes a glossary in terms used in the Kingdom.

Young Adult.