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The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time

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Generally Students of middle school and high school will have summer reading list. There will be numerous books in the list, they can pick one book from it and read it during the break. Here I got my list from my kids! The books that they enjoyed during 2022-2023 academic year. Firstly I picked up this book written by Mark Haddon. This book was in my high school daughter's (9th grade) curriculum. When she was in the middle of the book, she told me that I must read the book because it is very good. Here I read it on and off for a week and finished it. Christopher Boone, 15 year old boy narrates the story of himself. He lives with his father and mentions that he lost his mother 2 years ago in a heart attack. One fine evening he finds his neighbor's dog being murdered by someone with the garden fork. Police arrest him for the murder and shortly releases him which makes him want to investigate "who killed the dog?". He writes the investigation as a book! (Which is the one