Man Booker Prize Finalist: A тАЬwinning and ingeniousтАЭ novel about an eleven-year-old immigrant boy trying to solve a murder (The Plain Dealer).
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Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body. It is the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his incredible basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner.
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Armed with a pair of camouflage binoculars and techniques absorbed from television shows like CSI, Harri and his best friend, Dean, plot to bring the perpetrator to justice. They gather evidenceтАФfingerprints lifted with tape, a wallet stained with bloodтАФand lay traps to flush out the killer. But nothing can prepare them for what happens when a criminal feels you closing in.
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Recently emigrated from Ghana with his sister and mother to South LondonтАЩs enormous housing projects, Harri is obsessed with gummy candy, friendly to the pigeon who visits his balcony, is quite possibly the fastest runner in his school, and is clearly also fast on the trail of a murderer. тАЬ[A] work of deep sympathy and imagination,тАЭ Pigeon English is a tale of friendship and adventure, as Harri finds wonder, mystery, and danger in his new, ever-expanding world (The Boston Globe).
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тАЬPigeon English is a book to fall in love with: a funny book, a true book, a shattering book.┬а.┬а.┬а. If you loved Mark HaddonтАЩs The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time or Emma DonoghueтАЩs Man BookerтАУshortlisted Room, youтАЩll love this book too.тАЭ тАФThe Times (London)
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тАЬConvincingly evokes life on the edge .┬а.┬а. The humour, the resilience, the sheer ebullience of its narratorтАФa hero for our timesтАФshould ensure the book becomes, deservedly, a classic.тАЭ тАФThe Mail on Sunday
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тАЬContinually surprising and endearing┬а.┬а.┬а. ThereтАЩs a sweetness here thatтАЩs irresistible.тАЭ тАФThe┬аWashington Post
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тАЬFunny and poignant┬а.┬а.┬а. What might be described as Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Trainspotting.тАЭ тАФToronto Star
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тАЬSince Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, there have been certain rules observed when children play detective. Stephen Kelman throws them all out┬а.┬а.┬а. The mystery is secondary to the pleasures of listening to Harri.тАЭ тАФThe Christian Science Monitor