num_pages: 342
description: Matilda is a brilliant and sensitive child, but her parents think of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old, she has read Dickens and Hemingway and still her parents think of her as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Her platinum-haired mother and car salesman father are no match for her sharp genius, and neither is the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull. And then the child prodigy discovers she has an extraordinary magic power that can save her school and especially the lovely kindergarten teacher, Miss Honey.
language: English
title: Matilda
titlecomplete: Matilda
characters: Matilda Wormwood, Miss Trunchbull, Miss Honey
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Childrens, Humor, Young Adult, Middle Grade, School, Audiobook, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 897304
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Odyssey Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Prijs van de Nederlandse Kinderjury
category: 10-12 jaar en 13-16 jaar, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Audie Award
category: Children's Titles Ages 8-12, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards
category: Read Aloud (1990), Younger Readers (1997), awardedAt: 599644800000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Younger Readers, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Blue Peter Book Award
category: Voter's Award - Book that Made Me Laugh the Loudest, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Red House Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award
category: Book Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Massachusetts Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Nevada Young Readers' Award
category: Intermediate Category , awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Beehive Book Award
category: Children's Fiction, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Indian Paintbrush Book Award, awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Bluestem Book Award, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Virginia Reader's Choice
category: Elementary, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.