# Room

**Author:** Emma Donoghue
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 2010
**Page count:** 370
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780316196949`
**ISBN-10:** `0316196940`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/room
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada). It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.

## Themes

- family life
- sexual assault
- rape
- new york times bestseller

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2012 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2012 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2012 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2012 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

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