Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls (Emmy and the Rat)

By Lynne Jonell

Book Overview

Emmy Addison is an ordinary girl almost. If you don't count the fact that her parents are rich (very), her best friend is a boy (and a soccer star), and she can talk to rodents (and they talk back), she's very ordinary indeed. But she hasn't been that way for long . . . It was only a few weeks ago that Emmy and her friends Ratty and Joe got rid of the evil Miss Barmy, the nanny who had nearly ruined Emmy's life and the lives of five other girls who went missing. Miss Barmy is now a rat. How much harm can she do?"

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805081518
• ISBN13: 9780805081510
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 1.3" x 6.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

humorous fantasy

Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls. Art by Jonathan Bean. Henry Holt and Company. 2008. Emmy from "Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat" (Henry Holt, 2007) is back with her best friend Joe and her delightful animal friends in another amusing fantasy adventure. Emmy, Joe, and her new friend Meg get involved in rescuing some kidnapped children who have been shrunk and enslaved by Emmy's former villainous nanny, Miss Barmy. Jonathan Bean decorates the page tops with a recurring closet shelf that hints of the mystery in the story, and cleverly creates an animated mouse figure gradually climbing a rope up to the shelf as the story progresses. Well-written humorous dialogue and engaging characters make this book an appealing read for children, ages 9-12.