Musical Maggie Mad-Rat leaves her home in Africa to attend her cousin Montague's wedding in New York City, where she meets family and makes new friends, including the unique Randal Reese-Rat.
Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous rat, Racso. Together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.
Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce younger readers to the life of a rat; describes their anatomy, habitat, life cycle, and unique characteristics; and discusses their position on the food chain and other related topics.
After his best friend moves away, Rat rudely rebuffs the efforts of the other residents of the junkyard to be friendly, until he and a grouchy old dog decide that they need each other.
When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.