The Truth About Rats, Rules, & Seventh Grade

by Linda Zinnen

Larch Waysorta lives by The What a bunch of stupid, stupid rules. The Rules don't tell you what to do when your best friend is falling in love with a drop-dead gorgeous jerk. Or when your trailer turns into a winter home for every rat in Pottsville, Ohio. Or when you find out The Truth about the night your father died. Do you sometimes have to break The Rules if you want to handle The Truth?

Genres: Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Young Adult

160 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 2001

Reviews

[Bethany Erickson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Larch is an interesting character. She's a strict rule follower, likes to make lists for everything, and she's about to learn the truth of her father's death. There are some laugh out loud humor, but no waterworks when mother and daughter finally confide in one another.

[Lily · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book was kind of boring it didn't really make sense to me I didn't really understand it.