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Weaving together science, history, culture, and folklore, award-winning writer Albert Marrin offers a look at rats that goes from the curious to repulsive, horrifying to comic, fearsome to inspiring. Arresting black-and-white scratchboard illustrations with bold red accents add visual punch to this study of a creature that has annoyed, disgusted, nourished, and intrigued its human neighbors for centuries. * \"[A] lively and informative overview of the history and behavior of the widely encountered rodent.... It's a different sort of discussion... for this well-known historian and biographer and one that he has clearly enjoyed, as will a wide variety of nonfiction readers and animal fans. There's a bibliography of adult sources and children's nonfiction as well as a listing of literary works featuring rats.\" — School Library Journal , starred review “Pleasantly icky.” — Booklist A Junior Library Guild Selection Includes bibliography, further reading list, and a list of rats in literature","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780147512819","publication_date":"20141002","publisher":"Penguin Young Readers Group","slug":"oh-rats","subtitle":"The Story of Rats and People","title":"Oh Rats!"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"JNF003160","confidence_band":"high","label":"Small Pets","score":0.7933,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF003220","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Animal Welfare","score":0.7251,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF051190","confidence_band":"medium","label":"History of Science","score":0.722,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"JNF003160","confidence_band":"high","label":"Small Pets","score":0.7933,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF003220","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Animal Welfare","score":0.7251,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"JNF051190","confidence_band":"medium","label":"History of Science","score":0.722,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"JNF003000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Animal Facts","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF003160","confidence_band":"high","label":"Small Pets","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"JNF051150","confidence_band":"high","label":"Animals & Zoology","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Small Pets","score":0.7933,"slug":"small-pets"},{"label":"Animal Welfare","score":0.7251,"slug":"animal-welfare"},{"label":"History of Science","score":0.722,"slug":"history-of-science"}],"reader_fit":["Readers curious about rats' history and behavior"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Elise Gravel"],"book_id":"9781770496583","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781770496583.jpg?v=22af703d7a21e3aa","score":0.848,"title":"The Rat","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781770496583"},{"authors":["Robert Sullivan"],"book_id":"9781582344775","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781582344775.jpg?v=d9abbefcead0777d","score":0.8415,"title":"Rats","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781582344775"},{"authors":["Philip Pullman"],"book_id":"9780440416616","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780440416616.jpg?v=c3b1a4db6340d3f5","score":0.7838,"title":"I Was a Rat!","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780440416616"},{"authors":["Gail Gibbons"],"book_id":"9780823415540","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780823415540.jpg?v=d9cb79deba4f1fa0","score":0.6899,"title":"Pigs","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780823415540"},{"authors":["Aline Alexander Newman"],"book_id":"9781426323089","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781426323089.jpg?v=793ff8b25ca896ec","score":0.68,"title":"National Geographic Kids Chapters: Rascally Rabbits!","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781426323089"},{"authors":["Adam Rubin"],"book_id":"9780547576817","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780547576817.jpg?v=507fbc2b72b842c1","score":0.673,"title":"Those Darn Squirrels!","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780547576817"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:non fiction books for kids age 9 12"],"label":"Kids","score":1,"slug":"kids"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:kids books ages 9-12"],"label":"Ages","score":0.2642,"slug":"ages"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:close reading"],"label":"Reading","score":0.0768,"slug":"reading"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:stem gifts"],"label":"Stem","score":0.0255,"slug":"stem"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Rat behavior and intelligence, Rats and human history, Science, culture, and folklore.","Themes: Kids, Ages, Reading.","Reading lane: Small Pets and Animal Welfare."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.91,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers curious about rats' history and behavior"],"themes":["Rat behavior and intelligence","Rats and human history","Science, culture, and folklore"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":88,"goodreads_ratings_count":521,"goodreads_reviews_count":100,"quality_score":0.9165}}