Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

Name: Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Lynne Jonelle
ISBN: 9781934180990

Author: Lynne Jonelle

Narrator: Lynne Jonelle, Full Cast

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Full Cast Audio

Published: 10/14/2010

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories

Synopsis

Emmy was a good girl—too good, perhaps. The rat, whose cage sat on the counter next to Emmy’s desk, was not so good. On the other hand, he was the only one in Emmy’s class who would talk to her. The rest of the kids barely knew she existed. Even her teacher didn’t seem to know she was there! Only her nanny, the lovely-but-sinister Miss Barmy, really pays her much attention. And Emmy would rather she didn’t....Why does the rat talk to Emmy and no one else? Why do Emmy’s schoolmates hardly notice she exists? And what is Miss Barmy really after? Teasing out the answers to these questions will plunge Emmy into a wild adventure where everything she holds dear — including her parents’ lives! — is at risk.Endlessly inventive, uproariously funny, and utterly endearing, Lynne Jonell’s sensational debut novel will delight the entire family.©2007 Lynne Jonell (P)2009 Full Cast Audio

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valerie

I first picked this book up when I was browsing at the library because I loved the cover design. I loved the simplicity of Jonathan Bean's illustration and the combination of sweet Emmy and the ill-humored rat in the tree above her. The thoughtfulness of design continues inside with illustrations th......more

Goodreads review by Gwen the Librarian

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, by Lynne Jonell, is extremely well-written, with bathroom humor, pathos, and believable and sympathetic characters of both the human and rodent kind. Emmy is a very rich, very lonely little girl. Her parents are constantly going off on long trips and leaving he......more

Goodreads review by Betsy

It's easy to become jaded. Read enough children's fiction and it all begins to swim and swirl about in your head. Was that the middle grade novel about a girl who likes a boy with twinkling blue eyes or deep brown ones you just read? Did that historical fiction work involve a plucky boy working in a......more