Level – Intermediate
Plot – Christopher is a fifteen-year-old boy who is on the autism spectrum, lives with his father. The boy discovers the dead body of the neighbour’s dog, Wellington, speared by a garden fork. Mrs Shears, the dog’s owner, calls the police, and Christopher comes under suspicion. He decides to investigate the dog’s death, despite his father’s orders to stay out of other people’s business.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.
Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram ke
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