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'It's 1900. Thirteen-year-old Issy McKelvie leaves school and starts her first job - very reluctantly - as a maid in an undertaking establishment. She thinks this is about as low as you can go. But there's worse to come.
'Issy becomes an unwilling rat-catcher when the plague - the Black Death - arrives in Australia. Issy loathes both rats and her father's four yappy, snappy, hyperactive rat-killing terriers. But when her father becomes ill it's up to Issy to join the battle to rid the city of the plague-carrying rats.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Works about this Work
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Review : The Ratcatcher’s Daughter
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2014; (p. 67)
— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter 2014 single work children's fiction -
Neverending Stories
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11-17 June no. 984 2014; (p. 29) -
[Review] The Ratcatcher's Daughter
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 29 no. 2 2014; (p. 41-42)
— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter 2014 single work children's fiction -
Secret History
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 March 2014; (p. 34)
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[Review] The Ratcatcher's Daughter
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 29 no. 2 2014; (p. 41-42)
— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter 2014 single work children's fiction -
Review : The Ratcatcher’s Daughter
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2014; (p. 67)
— Review of The Ratcatcher's Daughter 2014 single work children's fiction -
Secret History
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 March 2014; (p. 34) -
Neverending Stories
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 11-17 June no. 984 2014; (p. 29)
Awards
- 2017 shortlisted BILBY (Books I Love Best Yearly) Awards
- 2016 first prize SWW Book Awards — Young Adults
- 2015 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2015 winner Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
- 2015 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
Last amended 14 May 2021 09:32:30
Settings:
- Brisbane, Queensland,
- 1891-1901
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