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Nightshade City

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By Hilary Wagner
Publisher Holiday House, Incorporated
Nightshade City
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Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, the kingdom of mutant rats of superior intellect. Following a bloody coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled by decadent High Minister Kildeer and vicious Billycan, a demented former lab rat and now head of the Kill Army. Three young orphan ratsbrothers Vincent and Victor and a clever female named Cloverrebel against the Ministry, joining forces with Juniper, Billycans archenemy. Juniper and his maverick bank of followers, helped by a tribe of earthworms, plot to overthrow their oppressors and liberate the citizens to create a new city Nightshade City. This impossibletoputdown animal fantasy, set in a brilliantly imagined subterranean world, explores timeless themes of freedom, forgiveness, the bonds of family, and the power of love.

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80113 words80,113 words
320 pages320 pages
Lexile 800LLexile 800L
Grade 3 to 6Grade 3 to 6
Age 8-11Age 8-11
Published 2010Published 2010

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Book ISBN:

9780823422852

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