The Goldfinch. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2013 book
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, 2013
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John Crowley, 2019

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Decker’s mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In the aftermath of the explosion, a dying man urges him to take a painting and his engraved ring. Theo hides the painting at his apartment, and is placed with the Barbours, the family of his childhood friend Andy.


Wonderstruck. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2011 comic book
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Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick, 2011
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Todd Haynes, 2017

The film interlaces two stories set fifty years apart, switching frequently between them, with the older storyline filmed in black and white. Each tells the story of a child’s quest. In 1927, young deaf girl Rose runs away from her father’s New Jersey home to find her mother/idol, the actress Lillian Mayhew. In 1977, recently orphaned Ben, made deaf by a freak accident, runs away from his Minnesota home in search of his father.


The War with Grandpa. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 1984 book
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The War with Grandpa
Robert Kimmel Smith, 1984
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Tim Hill, 2020

Forced to give up his room to his grandfather when he moves in to the house of his parents, a scheming boy devises a series of outrageous pranks in an attempt to make him move out , but the grandfather fights back with some pranks of his own and assistance from his friends.