y intelligent girl, who is very keen to go to school and read books. After a while, her parents send her to school with the worst principal in the world, a very sweet teacher, and good friends. While trying to put up with her parents' and principal's cruelty, she starts to unwittingly unleash telekinetic powers, destroying a television and making a salamander fly onto the principal. With enough practice, Matilda starts to learn to control her telekinetic powers and soon using them on her principal so she can drive her away from the school.

Tags : child protagonist | baby | bully | restaurant | abuse | character name as title | book | villainess | cat | african american | mother daughter relationship | adoption | brother sister relationship | best friend | friendship | dysfunctional family | anger | based on book | based on novel

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