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4.4/5 Publication date 2004 Pages 192 pp Originally published 2004 Genre Historical drama Country United States of America | 3.6/5 Language English Media type Print Paperback ISBN 0-440-41884-4 Publisher Random House OCLC 49799270 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Macaroni Boy is an historical, young-adult novel by the American writer Katherine Ayres.
It is set in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression and tells the story of sixth-grader Mike Costa. His large Italian-American family owns a food warehouse in the Strip District, but the school bully taunts him, calling him Macaroni Boy. Mike is the store's rat killer, and when he checks his traps he is catching fewer. Mike eventually discovers a connection between the dying rats and his grandfather's illness. Mike's best friend, Joseph, helps Mike solve this great mystery
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