Unhooking the Moon

Meet the Rat: A dancing, football-playing gangster-baiting ten-year-old. When she foresaw her father s death, she picked up her football and decided to head for New York. Meet her older brother Bob: Protector of the Rat, but more often her follower, he is determined to find their uncle in America and discover a new life for them both. On their adventures across the flatlands of Winnipeg and through the exciting streets of New York, Bob and the Rat make friends with a hilarious con man and a famous rap star, and escape numerous dangers. But is the Uncle they are searching for really a drug dealer? And will they ever find him?