Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a small room. It has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five.He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ... Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting. Author: Emma Donoghue. (336 pages)
Level: 2nd and 3rd Years of Gymnasium / Reading Groups