Loved itI'm so glad that it did because otherwise I never would have read this gem of a novel. It's structured in such a clever way and so it's one that I would definitely recommend reading physically.
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation...
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- 9781399607766
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- 249 pages
Genres: science fiction, young adult
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