Munmun (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781419728716)

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth.

The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute--and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger richer people don't ever have to think about, from being mauled by cats to their house getting stepped on. There are no cars or phones built small enough for them, or schools or hospitals, for that matter--there's no point, when no one that little has any purchasing power, and when salaried doctors and teachers would never fit in buildings so small.

Warner and Prayer know their only hope is to scale up, but how can two littlepoors survive in a world built against them?

A brilliant, warm, funny trip, unlike anything else out there, and a social novel for our time in the tradition of 1984 or Invisible Man. Inequality is made intensely visceral by an adventure and tragedy both hilarious and heartbreaking.

Author: Jesse Andrews
ISBN-10: 1419728717
ISBN-13: 9781419728716
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2018
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 194120 / Munmun


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 01/01/2018
Booklist 01/01/2018 pg. 92
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2018 - Recommended - Readable
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2018 pg. 161
Publishers Weekly 02/05/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Recommended, Satisfactory