The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
John's Boyne's heartwarming tale about tolerance and acceptance is now available in paperback!
There's nothing unusual about the Brockets. Boring, respectable, and proud of it, they turn up their noses at anyone strange or different. But from the moment their son Barnaby comes into the world, he's as different as he can possibly be. To his parents' sheer horror, he defies the laws of gravity--and floats!
Desperate to please his disapproving parents, Barnaby does his best to keep both feet on the ground, but he just can't help who he is. And so one fateful day, the Brockets decide that enough is enough. They never asked for a weird, abnormal, floating child, and Barnaby has to go.
Betrayed, frightened, and…
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October 14, 2014
John Boyne is the author of thirteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, was a number one New York Times bestseller with more than eleven million copies sold worldwide, and has been adapted for cinema, theater, ballet, and opera. His many international bestsellers include The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky. He has won three Irish Book Awards, along with a host of other international literary prizes. His novels are published in more than fifty languages. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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