- Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Science fiction, Extraterrestrial beings
When Jim and Charlie overhear two of their teachers talking in a secret language and the two friends set out to solve the mystery, they do not expect the dire consequences of their actions.
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- Author
- Mark Haddon
- First published
- February 25, 1993
- Pages
- 194
- Publisher
- De Fontein, Salamandra, RHCB
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Italian, heb, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780385616294
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Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Tim*e (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
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