- Strangers, Fiction, Angels, Family life
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.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- David Almond
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 186
- Publisher
- Hodder Childrens, Heinemann Educational Publishers, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- French, tur, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781435234031
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“I FOUND HIM IN THE GARAGE ON A Sunday afternoon.”
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