The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I, The Pox Party
By M. T. Anderson
Publisher
Candlewick
Imprint
Candlewick
ISBN
By M. T. Anderson
0763624020
Awards and Honors Booksense Book of the Year Award 2007, Children’s Literature, Honor | 2007 Michael L. Printz Award, Honor | 2007 Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Fiction and Poetry | Horn Books Fanfare List – Best Books of 2006, FictionThe Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume I, The Pox Party
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9780763624026J
Octavian has spent his childhood in colonial Boston receiving a classical education from a house full of scientists. Aside from Greek, Latin, math, and music, the scholars train him "to be precise in notation, acute in investigation, and rational in inference." It's the only life he's known, and he has never thought it out of the ordinary. As he grows older, however, Octavian wonders: How is he related to these men? Why are they interested in his development? And what lies inside the room he's forbidden to enter? Author's note. Winner of the 2006 National Book Award. Winner of the 2007 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. A 2007 Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
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