# I'm the King of the Castle

**Author:** Susan Hill
**Grade range:** Grades 9–10
**Age range:** 14–15
**First published:** 1970
**Page count:** 222
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780670390700`
**ISBN-10:** `0670390704`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/im-the-king-of-the-castle
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

\*Tells the story of two boys forced to live together by their widowed parents, it is a chilling portrayal of childhood, cruelty and persecution, of parental blindness and of out own ambivalence to what are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives.\*

## Themes

- childhood
- lack of parenting
- isolation
- nature

## Where this book is assigned

### Cambridge IGCSE English Literature (0475)

- **required** · 9th grade — [source: Prescribed set text for Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0475), Paper 1 Section B (Prose), for examination in 2027. Transcribed from the official Cambridge International syllabus (721333-2027-syllabus.pdf). Set texts rotate per exam year — re-verify ](https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-literature-english-0475/)
- **required** · 10th grade — [source: Prescribed set text for Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0475), Paper 1 Section B (Prose), for examination in 2027. Transcribed from the official Cambridge International syllabus (721333-2027-syllabus.pdf). Set texts rotate per exam year — re-verify ](https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-literature-english-0475/)

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