- Death, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Fictitious characters
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
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Contemporary, grave, intimate and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Almond
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 79
- Publisher
- Walker Books, Candlewick Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780763639327
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