Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (2007)
Scott was given a copy of this book by one of his students as he left his previous school. It is a very apt book to give a teacher, as the book itself is about the huge impact that one teacher, Mister Pip, has on a young girl in a village on a Papa New Guinae island.
It is an inspirational book. It is inspiring in terms of what Mister Pip sets out to achieve with these young people despite non-existant resources and a war raging around them and their families. His dedication to teaching these young people is what makes them dedicated to him, even though they find him, and his wife, a little wierd (all teachers are a little wierd to children, aren't they?). Matilda faces challenge after challenge, but rises to them through trauma to go onto pay homage to Mister Pip in her further education, but also personally making the circle of his life complete.
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