Room : a novel / Donoghue, Emma.

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Donoghue, Emma

Publication details: London : Picador, 2010.Description: 321 pISBN:

9780330519922

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DDC classification:

F DON

Summary: Abstract: Summary: Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways, loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions. His upbringing is far from ordinary. Jack's entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet. As far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. (Book jacket)

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Abstract: Summary: Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways, loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions. His upbringing is far from ordinary. Jack's entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet. As far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. (Book jacket)

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This Senior Fiction novel, Room, is told through the voice of 5-year-old Jack. Room is the world in which Jack has spent his entire short life. He does not know that there is a world outside the four walls that keep him and his mother imprisoned, with no windows and only a skylight to their only view of the outside world. This is a story of the amazing strength of a young woman to save her son and herself from captivity.

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