Macaroni Boy is a children's historical novel by the American writer Katherine Ayres.

Macaroni Boy
Yearling Books edition cover.
AuthorKatherine Ayres
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical Fiction
PublisherYearling Books
Publication date
2004
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages192 pp
ISBN0-440-41884-4
OCLC49799270

It is set in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression and tells the story of sixth-grader Mike Costa. His large Italian-American family owns a food warehouse in the Strip District, but the school bully taunts him, calling him Macaroni Boy. Mike is the store's rat killer, and when he checks his traps he is catching fewer. Mike eventually discovers a connection between the dying rats and his grandfather's illness. Mike's best friend, Joseph, helps Mike solve this great mystery [1]

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  1. ^ Ayres, Katherine (2004). Macaroni Boy (2004), Booklist, 2004. Random House Children's Books. ISBN 0440418844.