01555nam a22002897a 4500 5288 FISKH 20241122154331.0 241122b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780552565769 FISKH eng FISKH FISKH PZ7.B69677 823.92 Boyne, John The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket / by John Boyne : illustrated by Oliver Jeffers London : Corgi ; 2012. 277 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm . Z Fantasy. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML: Barnaby Brocket is an ordinary 8-year-old boy in most ways, but he was born different in one important way: he floats. Unlike everyone else, Barnaby does not obey the law of gravity. His parents, who have a horror of being noticed, want desperately for Barnaby to be normal, but he can't help who he is. And when the unthinkable happens, Barnaby finds himself on a journey that takes him all over the world. From Brazil to New York, Canada to Ireland, and even to space, the floating boy meets all sorts of different people--and discovers who he really is along the way. This whimsical novel will delight middle graders, and make readers of all ages question the meaning of normal. . 980 Lexile Z Raz-Plus adventure fiction being different fiction Jeffers, Oliver illustrator ddc BK 0 5288 5288 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 SBS 2024-11-22 0 BOY 823.92 PZ7.B69677 FISSE01925 2024-11-22 15:43:27 2024-11-22 BK