Skellig (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards))

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  • Author : David Almond
  • Binding : Hardcover
  • EAN : 9780385326537
  • ISBN : 038532653X
  • Label : Delacorte Press
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Delacorte Press
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 192
  • Package Dimensions : 0.89 inches (Height) x 8.56 inches (Length) x 0.72 pounds (Weight) x 5.79 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 1999-04-13
  • Publisher : Delacorte Press
  • SKU : U9780385326537
  • Studio : Delacorte Press

Michael can feel his sick baby sister's heart beating inside him, and as long as he can feel it he knows she is alive. But as her condition becomes life-threatening and the family faces the nightmare of an operation to save her life, Michael turns to his new friend Mina and the strange being, Skellig, who has been living beneath the crumbling garage at the family's new home. In this most delicate and tender story of a young boy living in fear of death and coming to terms with life, you can almost touch the indefinable magic that Skellig--part owl, part human, part everything and nothing--brings to Michael's unsettled world. With the gentle touch of an angel's breath, Almond, in his first novel for children, lets his characters think, feel and believe without overwhelming sentimentality. A dream of a book to touch even the hardest of hearts. --Susan Harrison

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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