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Skellig
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In Skellig, David Almond has created a creature both believable and unbelievable. Young Michael finds Skellig in a falling down garage, covered with dust, spider webs and dead flies. ?He was filthy and pale and dried out and I thought he was dead,? is how Michael describes his first impression. Giving Skellig friendship and sustenance, with the help of his new friend Mina, Michael brings him back to life and in the process, with the help of a heart surgeon, keeps his baby sister alive. Is Skellig real? Is he a beer drinking, Chinese-food loving angel? Do we all have wings folded under our shoulder blades? What must we do to discover their presence and purpose. Could we all fly out from the dark places where we are hidden in our dried out dust-bin lives if we learned to listen and look and feel and be present to experience the heart beat of others right there next to our own? Gently full of magic and realism, and the beauty and harshness of nature, Almond?s young adult novel is masculine and feminine, thoughtful and intense, full of contradictions, and tenderly oozing with life and of death. He captures the challenge of the human heart to embrace its own helplessness and work a magic transformation. In writing about a young boy just discovering his inner power, Almond has created a story that will speak softly yet memorably to ten year olds as well as reverberate in the echo chambers of much older readers as well.
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Skellig is one of the most beautifully written books I have ever read. Everyone can relate to Michael's experience with loneliness and fear and the difficulties that his family faces. However, into his life comes the miracle of Skellig (a wonderfully beautiful creature that Michael befriends and helps). Michael's life and family are dramatically transformed in a marvelously unexpected manner. If only we all experienced such miracles. Everyone to whom I have recommended the book has read and loved it! It should have won the Printz Prize that year. It was far better then the competition!
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Product Details
ISBN:
9780440416029
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/12/2000
Publisher:
BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL
Series info:
Skellig
Pages:
192
Height:
.60IN
Width:
5.10IN
Thickness:
.75
Age Range:
8 to 12
Grade Range:
3 to 7
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2000
Series Volume:
v. 23
UPC Code:
2800440416021
Author:
David Almond
Author:
Laura Quimby
Author:
David Almond
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Angels
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Children s-General
Subject:
Strangers.
Subject:
England
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Children's 9-12 - Family
Subject:
Moving, Household
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Family
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