Matt the Rat Fights Back

by Lorenzo Liberto and Illustrated by Irving Torres

Matt the Rat Fights Back is a neat story featuring Matt and how he gets himself into a jam during summer vacation. When school starts in the fall, Matt is surprised that he loses the traditional Back to School Race. It is a race he has always won. Thanks to his coach and loyal friends, Matt fights his way back to fitness and wins the Thanksgiving Race.

After winning the battle for fitness, Matt is a changed rat and plans to keep on winning, not just for a few weeks or months, but for the rest of his life.

Matt the Rat Fights Back is an ideal book for students learning English or Spanish. Each paragraph is written in both languages. Even a novice can match up many of the English and Spanish words. This novel is thirty-one pages long and has large colorful pictures, a perfect book for a shared reading time.

Matt the Rat Fights Back was published by Harvest Sun Press and is one of four in a series, all bilingual. Other titles are: Save the Planet, Matt the Rat’s Incredible Creations and Matt the Rat and his Sister Maggie. These books can be purchased from Target stores as well as Amazon.