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Matilda

Amazon.com Price:  $5.02 (as of 01/05/2019 01:08 PST- Details)

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From the bestselling writer of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!

Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she’s just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she all of sudden discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It’s going to take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda is also just the one to do it!

“Matilda will surely go straight to children’s hearts.” —The New York Times Book Review

Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she’s knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even supposing she’s a super-nerd and the teacher’s pet. But everything isn’t perfect in Matilda’s world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there’s the large, busty nightmare of a college principal, Mrs. (“The”) Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to take care of such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.

She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable–the big surprise comes when Matilda discovers a new, mysterious facet of her mental dexterity. Roald Dahl, whilst keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because along with all her other gifts, she has real feelings. (Ages 9 to 12)


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