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| Meet Ed Kennedyunderage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he's hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first Ace arrives. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. . . . Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary), until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission? Winner of the 2003 Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award in Australia, I Am the Messenger is a cryptic journey filled with laughter, fists, and love. From the Hardcover edition. |
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| Product Identifiers |
| Publisher | Random House Children's Books |
| ISBN-10 | 0375836675 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780375836671 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 50483665 |
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| Product Key Features |
| Format | Paperback |
| Publication Year | 2006 |
| Author | Markus Zusak |
| Language | English |
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| Dimensions |
| Weight | 9.6 Oz |
| Width | 5.2in. |
| Height | 0.8in. |
| Length | 8.1in. |
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| Additional Product Features |
| Dewey Edition | 22 |
| Grade to | Twelfth Grade |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Dewey Decimal | Fic |
| Grade from | Seventh Grade |
| Age Range | 12-17 |
| Number of Pages | 368 Pages |
| Edition Description | Reprint |
| Publication Date | 2006-05-09 |
| Reviews | " The Book Thief is unsettling and unsentimental, yet ultimately poetic. Its grimness and tragedy run through the reader's mind like a black-and-white movie, bereft of the colors of life. Zusak may not have lived under Nazi domination, but The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night. It seems poised to become a classic." - USA Today "Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor." - Time Magazine "Elegant, philosophical and moving...Beautiful and important." - Kirkus Reviews, Starred "An extraordinary narrative." - School Library Journal, Starred "Exquisitely written and memorably populated, Zusak's poignant tribute to words, survival, and their curiously inevitable entwinement is a tour de force to be not just read but inhabited." - The Horn Book Magazine, Starred "One of the most highly anticipated young-adult books in years." - The Wall Street Journal |
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