num_pages: 321
description: To five-year-old-Jack Room is the world....Told in the inventive funny and poignant voice of Jack Room is a celebration of resilienceand a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.To five-year-old Jack Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack but to Ma it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination ingenuity and fierce motherly love Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic pragmatic five-year-old Jack Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.
language: English
title: Room
publisher: Little, Brown and Company