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The King in the Window
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by Adam Gopnik (Author) (edit contributors)

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Oliver Parker, a twelve-year-old American boy living in Paris, is lonelier than he has ever been. Intimidated by his French school and its prickly teachers, and made melancholy by the long, gray winter, Oliver longs for some friends, and maybe even a little adventure. One dark and freezing... read more

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IF OLIVER HAD simply smiled and joked with his parents while he was wearing the gold paper crown, or if he had just remembered to take it off after dinner, as he had always done before, the window wraiths might never have mistaken him for royalty.

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Part One
Chapter 1: A Stone in the Street, A Boy in the Window/ 3
Chapter 2: More Calling/ 23
Chapter 3: In the King's House/ 52
Chapter 4: The War of the Mirrors and Windows/ 66
Chapter 5: The World and the Way/ 100
Chapter 6: The Missing Mirror/ 135
Chapter 7: Soul Samurai/ 169
Chapter 8: Ice and Crystals/ 189
Chapter 9: In the Mirror-Maze/207
Chapter 10: The Master of Mirrors/219
Part Two
Chapter 11: The Great Reversal/259
Chapter 12: Crumbs and Colored Glass/273
Chapter 13: A Ladder of Light/298
Chapter 14: Qualms and Quanta/315
Chapter 15: Light and Shade/331
Chapter 16: The Battle of Ice and Water/354
Chapter 17: The Cosmic Chase/375
Chapter 18: Metaphors and Mirrors/392

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  1. Adam Gopnik (Author)

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