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The Wild Things

by Dave Eggers · 2009

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The Wild Things — based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze — is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control.

Genre
fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisadventureadventureMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of thismythologymythologyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of thisfaefaeMore like thisLess of thismediamediaMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adultchildrensadultmiddle grade
Length
medium · 288 pages

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