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|title=Ratburger

|author=David Walliams

|reviewer=Linda Lawlor

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780007453528

|pages=320

|publisher=Harper Collins

|date=September 2012

|website=david-walliams.co.uk

|video=Uri_eaNjCAo

|summary=Zoe doesn't have a very happy life. Her dad's given up trying and spends his time down the pub. Her stepmother's so lazy she tries to get Zoe to pick her nose for her. And Burt, who sells burgers at the school gate, has got his beady eye on Zoe's pet rat. If you want to know why, there's a clue in the title . . .

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There are lots of similarities between the style and plot of this book and those of Roald Dahl. First of all you have a child who is living in a situation so outrageously terrible that it becomes funny, and for whatever reason, all the other adults around don't seem capable of helping. The villain, while being fairly two-dimensional, has enough disgusting and frightening qualities to make readers shiver in delicious anticipation whenever they appear. And the miseries just keep piling up until it doesn't seem there's any way out.

Fans of this book will certainly want to read other stories by David Walliams. Bookbag thoroughly enjoyed both [[The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams and Quentin Blake|The Boy in the Dress]], and [[Billionaire Boy by David Walliams|Billionaire Boy]].

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