An enchanted coin. A witch's curse. And rats, rats everywhere! What's
a boy to do?
When Rudi Bauer accidentally takes a witch's coin, he unleashes her
curse. Accident or not, he knows he's got to fix things, so he tries to
return the coin, only to lose it on the witch's magic mountain just as
the snows come. Plagued all winter by terrible dreams, Rudi tries to
find the coin again in the spring, but it has vanished--and a plague of
rats has descended on his village.
Then a stranger arrives and promises to rid the village of rats--for the
price of the missing coin. Desperate to get rid of the rats, the
villagers agree--but when they cannot pay, the stranger exacts a price
too terrible for anyone to bear. Now Rudi is going to need all his
courage--and some help from his savvy grandmother and a bold young
girl--to set things right in this fast and funny adventure.