MatildaMatilda is a genius. Unfortunately, her family treats her like a dolt. Her crooked car-salesman father and loud, bingo-obsessed mother think Matilda's only talent is as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in their miserable lives. But it's not long before the sweet and sensitive child decides to fight back. Faced with practical jokes of sheer brilliance, her parents don't stand a chance. Book jacket. |
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... leaves school because he sure as heck won't get a job anywhere else . " Or if I were feeling lyrical that day , I might write , " It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing - organs in the sides of the abdomen . Your ...
... leaves school because he sure as heck won't get a job anywhere else . " Or if I were feeling lyrical that day , I might write , " It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing - organs in the sides of the abdomen . Your ...
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... leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks . Matilda took all this in and stored the knowledge away carefully in her mind . They came finally to a gap in the hedge on the left - hand side of the road where there was a five ...
... leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks . Matilda took all this in and stored the knowledge away carefully in her mind . They came finally to a gap in the hedge on the left - hand side of the road where there was a five ...
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... bleating roughly and blithely shall leap , my dear , my dear , Out of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped year To eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood . " 12 · There was a moment of silence , and 184.
... bleating roughly and blithely shall leap , my dear , my dear , Out of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped year To eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood . " 12 · There was a moment of silence , and 184.
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The Reader of Books | 7 |
Mr Wormwood the Great Car Dealer | 22 |
The Ghost | 38 |
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