Ratscalibur — Josh Lieb

The New York Times bestselling author of A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President reinvents the Excalibur legend -- with rats!

When Joey is bitten by an elderly rat, he goes from future seventh-grader to three-inch-tall rodent. At first, Joey is amazed by his new rat self. The city streets call to him at night. Smells that would have repelled him before are suddenly tantalizing. (A chicken bone? Yes! A squashed cockroach? Like perfume!) But when a bout of hunger leads Joey to pull the spork from the scone, he finds himself at the center of a long-unfulfilled rat prophecy.

Joey has unwittingly unlocked the sword Ratscalibur. Now it is up to him to protect his new rat friends from the evil crows who seek to destroy their peaceful kingdom. But what does an eleven-year-old know about actual swordplay? And what happens when Joey no longer wants to be a rat?

Fans of Redwall and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Ninth will delight as author Josh Lieb takes them on an epic adventure through an intensely fragrant and richly drawn world where rats must fight to save all that they hold dear Joey is a hero to root for, and his story has all the hallmarks of a classic.