Book
Matilda
by Roald Dahl
- Published
- 1988
- Genre
- SciFi/Fantasy
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
- Pages
- 240
- Words
- 40009
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39988.Matilda?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.0
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 840L
- Guided reading level
- S
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–12
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 though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not 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 school principal, Miss ("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 deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
Collections
Davidson GiftedMensa Kids · 4-6NY Public Library
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9783499217616
- ISBN-10
- 3499217619
Tags
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