- Children: Grades 4-6, Fiction, Supernatural, Horror stories
Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They're full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- David Almond
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Hodder Children's Books, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, French, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780340773857
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