Jones, Lloyd,

Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones. - 1st ed. - Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2007. - 256 p. ; 20 cm.

On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, from which the teachers have fled with almost everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.

ISBN: 9780676979275 : 9780676979282 (trade pbk.)

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 2007902470X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nominee
Books and reading
Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988-$vFiction.
Storytelling
Teachers

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.914