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WENDOVER BOOKSHOP 35 High Street, Wendover, Bucks. HP22 6DU
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Skellig
David Almond Hodder, 1998 Paperback. 182pp. £5.99 to order
Michael was looking forward to moving house. It was all going to be wonderful. But now his baby sister's ill, his parents are frantic and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage… What is the thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never seen before? The only person Michael can confide in is Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever… David Almond sets his novels in the Northeast of England, and his writing, like the ruined industrial landscape his world inhabits, is authentic and realistic. His storytelling is imaginative. Friendship is a theme running through his novels. |
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Badger On the Barge by Janni Howker. Other books by David Almond we recommend include Kit's Wilderness, Counting Stars and Heaven Eyes.
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David
Almond's debut novel Skellig is one of the most remarkable children's
novels published in recent years. It won the 1998 Whitbread Children's
Book of the Year Award and the Carnegie Medal.