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For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 3, Interest age: from c 9 years, Interest age: from c 11 years, Interest age: from c 12 years, Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: family issues (Children', Personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-es
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Hodder Children's Books
- Paperback Apr 10, 2008 | 9780340944967 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 10, 2008 | 9780340944967 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Feb 6, 2014 | 9781444921045 | RRP $14.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 7, 2013 | 9781844569304 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
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Hodder Children's Books
- Paperback Apr 10, 2008 | 9780340944967 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Feb 6, 2014 | 9781444921045 | RRP $14.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 7, 2013 | 9781844569304 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
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In Stoneygate there was a wilderness, an empty space where the coal pit had once been. There, Kit met Askew, with his wild dog Jax. Askew, who ran the game called Death ... A superb book, winner of the Smarties Prize and the Michael L Printz Award.
Kit has just moved to Stoneygate with his family, to live with his ageing grandfather who is gradually succumbing to Alzheimer's Disease. Stoneygate is an insular place, scarred by its mining history - by the danger and death it has brought them. Where the coal mine used to be there is now a wilderness.
Here Kit meets Askew, a surly and threatening figure who masterminds the game called Death, a frightening ritual of hypnotism; and Kit makes friends with Allie, the clever school troublemaker. As Kit struggles to adjust to his new life and the gradual failing of his beloved grandfather, these two friendships pull him towards a terrifying resolution. Haunted by ghosts of the past, Kit must confront death and - ultimately - life.
A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.
David Almond
David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix SorciA res (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.
www.davidalmond.com
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