The Chicken-Fried Rat: Tales Too Gross to Be True

by Cylin Busby, Phoebe Gloeckner (Illustrator), Jan Harold Brunvand (Introduction)

A collection of stories about such incidents as a piece of fried chicken that turned out to be a rat, and a boy who went on a camping trip and ended up with spiders crawling on his face

Genres: Folklore

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Cylin Busby is the author of several teen books and numerous articles as well as the acclaimed young adult memoir, THE YEAR WE DISAPPEARED,which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a Cybils Award winner.
Her latest novel, THE NINE LIVES OF JACOB TIBBS, has earned starred reviews and was an Amazon Best Book of the Month. The former Senior Editor of Teen Magazine, Cylin now lives in Los Angeles with her family.