| A Prayer for Owen Meany Contributor(s): Irving, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1613839820 ISBN-13: 9781613839829 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $17.34 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 990 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 4.3" W x 6.8" (0.75 lbs) 617 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 28546 Reading Level: 7.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 42.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany." In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys best friends are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary." |