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Mister Pip

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  • Author: Jones, Lloyd
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    2006
    Summary:

    Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel 'Great Expectations'. Storytelling, imagination, courage, beauty, memories and sudden violence...

    Subject(s): Books and reading | Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) | Civil War | Storytelling
    Original Publisher: Auckland, N.Z., Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0385341067