The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A modern classic--both poignant and funny--about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.

"Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing." --The New York Times Book Review

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/18/2004
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781400032716

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 72354 / Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


Review Citation(s):
BookPage 05/01/2004 pg. 18
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
New York Times 05/30/2004 pg. 16
Kliatt 07/01/2004 pg. 18
People Weekly 07/28/2008 pg. 53
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 66
Entertainment Weekly 06/04/2010 pg. 90

About the Author
Mark Haddon is the author of the bestselling novels The Red House and A Spot of Bother. His novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and is the basis for the Tony Award-winning play. He is the author of a collection of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, has written and illustrated numerous children's books, and has won awards for both his radio dramas and his television screenplays. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and lives in Oxford, England.