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Michael can feel his sick baby sister's heart beating inside him, and as long as he can feel it he knows she is alive. But as her condition becomes life-threatening and the family faces the nightmare of an operation to save her life, Michael turns to his new friend Mina and the strange being, Skellig, who has been living beneath the crumbling garage at the family's new home. In this most delicate and tender story of a young boy living in fear of death and coming to terms with life, you can almost touch the indefinable magic that Skellig--part owl, part human, part everything and nothing--brings to Michael's unsettled world. With the gentle touch of an angel's breath, Almond, in his first novel for children, lets his characters think, feel and believe without overwhelming sentimentality. A dream of a book to touch even the hardest of hearts. --Susan HarrisonRead More

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    Michael's world after his family moves house seems lonely and frightening, when his new baby sister is fighting for her life in hospital. Then he discovers something - a creature in the crumbling garage, and nothing is ever the same. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children's book of the Year Award. ALSO AVAILABLE AS UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOKS ON TAPE AND CD, READ BY THE AUTHOR

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    When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then one Sunday afternoon he stumbles into the old ramshackle garage of his new home and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl part angel a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina Michael nourishes Skellig back to health while his baby sister languishes in the hospital. But Skellig is far more than he at first appears and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister Michael's world changes forever ...Skellig won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award and is now a major Sky1 feature film starring Tim Roth and John Simm. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

  • 0340997044
  • 9780340997048
  • David Almond
  • 19 March 2009
  • Hodder Children's Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • Television tie-in edition

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