Mike can't think of anything worse than writing So when his Grade Five teacher assigns a big research project on mammals, Mike knows he's doomed. Hoping to scrape by, he picks rats-gross, but easy enough. Or so he thinks. Everything changes when Mike borrows a dusty old rat book from the library. Its torn pages hide more than facts... the illustrations inside are alive with strange, dangerous powers. Suddenly, Mike's "boring" project turns into a wild adventure where the line between homework and horror begins to blur.