- Juvenile Fiction, School stories, Detective and mystery stories, Fathers
Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he knows it.
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Relentless, contemporary, spare and unpretentious.
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Frank Portman
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Random House Children's Books, Puffin
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385903127
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