Room

RoomThe award winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping a heart stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five year old Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time.

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating -- a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 09/13/2010
ISBN: 9780316098335
Pages: 321
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Kentucky Bluegrass Award - Winner
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Man Booker Prize - Nominee
Award: Young Adult Canadian Book Award - Finalist
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Winner
Award: Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2010 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 07/12/2010
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2010
Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 67
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/05/2010 pg. 29
People Weekly 09/20/2010 pg. 63
Entertainment Weekly 09/17/2010 pg. 143
Booklist 09/15/2010 pg. 29
Quill & Quire 10/01/2010 pg. 24
Newsweek 09/20/2010 pg. 67
New York Times Book Review 09/19/2010 pg. 1
New York Times Book Review 09/26/2010 pg. 22
New Yorker (The) 10/11/2010 pg. 104
LJ Top 10 Book 11/01/2010 pg. 1
People Weekly 12/27/2010 pg. 61
Entertainment Weekly 12/24/2010 pg. 120
New York Times Book Review 12/12/2010 pg. 10
Christian Century 12/14/2010 pg. 25
Quill & Quire Books of the Yr 12/01/2010 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 02/24/2012 pg. 80
Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 101

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 143569 / Room
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13