Skellig
By David Almond
(Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 9780385906890, 208pp.)
Publication Date: April 28, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Prebound
Categories: Family - General
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David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary!
Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .
David Almond grew up in a large family in northeastern England. He worked as a postman, a brush salesman, an editor, and a teacher but began to write seriously after he finished college. He lives in England with his partner and their daughter.
"Its strength as a novel is in its subtlety. . . . Skellig is a fine book." — The New York Times Book Review
"British novelist Almond makes a triumphant debut in the field of children’s literature with prose that is at once eerie, magical, and poignant." — Publishers Weekly, Starred
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