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  • Skellig

    by David Almond ...
    Series series Skellig
    David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary!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. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Nesting

    by David Almond ...
    David Almond is now known around the world as the author of the novels Skellig, Kit's Wilderness and The Savage. His first two books – Sleepless Nights (1985) and A Kind of Heaven (1997) – were published by Iron Press, a selection of which appears in Nesting alongside two previously unpublished tales. The stories draw deeply from the Tyneside estate of Almond's childhood, exploring the themes that ... Read more

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  • Kit's Wilderness

    by David Almond ...
    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 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Color of the Sun

    by David Almond ...
    Award-winning author David Almond pens the dreamlike tale of a boy rediscovering joy and beauty within and around him, even amid sorrow.One hot summer morning, only weeks after his father’s death, Davie steps out his front door into the familiar streets of the Tyneside town that has always been his home. But this seemingly ordinary day takes on an air of mystery and tragedy as the residents learn ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Heaven Eyes

    by David Almond ...
    Erin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them. But Erin knows that if they care for each other they can put up with the psychologists, the social workers, the therapists -- at least most of the time. Sometimes there is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • A Song for Ella Grey

    (stage version)

    by David Almond, Zoe Cooper ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'I'm the one who's left behind. I'm the one to tell the tale. I knew them both, knew how they lived and how she died.'Ella Grey and her friends are ordinary kids from ordinary families in an ordinary world. They fall in and out of love, play music, stare at the stars, yearn for excitement, and have parties on the beautiful beaches of Northumberland. One day a stranger – a musician called Orpheus – ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Name Is Mina

    by David Almond ...
    Series series Skellig
    Award-winning author David Almond reintroduces readers to the perceptive, sensitive Mina before the events of Skellig in this lyrical and fantastical work. My Name is Mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach us about life, love, and the mysteries that surround us.Mina loves the night. While everyone ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Kit's Wilderness

    by David Almond ...
    Written in haunting, lyrical prose, Kit’s Wilderness examines the bonds of family from one generation to the next, and explores how meaning and beauty can be revealed from the depths of darkness.A Michael L. Printz Award WinnerAn ALA Notable BookA Publishers Weekly Best BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the CenturyThe Watson family moves to Stoney... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Literature of Hell

    by Dr. Margaret Kean, Dr. Jonathan R. Olson, David Almond, Helen Appleton, Dr. Charlotte Jones, Jeya Ayadurai, Dr. Laura Seymour, Dr. Hannah Silverblank, Lisa Dwan, Professor Rachel Falconer0 ...
    Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings and the deep-set literary markers that identify a place of suffering and alienation continue to stimulate creative exchange and critical thinking. Such work takes risks: it braves the dark and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • A Song for Ella Grey

    by David Almond ...
    **Written in lyrical prose, this novel for fans of epic romances and mythology retellings explores themes of love, loss, fate, and destiny set against the dramatic and diverse backdrop of Northern England.David Almond, recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, a Printz Honor for Skellig, and the Printz Award for Kit’s Wilderness, has crafted an enchanting modern take on the myth ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

    by David Almond ...
    From master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, exquisitely written novel about a hidden-away child who emerges into a broken world.Billy Dean is a secret child. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the scents of candles and incense and cigarettes. Birds fly to his window. Mice run out from his walls. His world is a carpet, a bed, pictures of the holy ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Clay

    by David Almond ...
    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. Father O’Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him—maybe some of their good nature will rub off on this unhappy soul. But it’s Stephen who sees something special in Davie.Stephen’s a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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