Skellig by David Almond

Skellig by David AlmondThe bestselling story about love, loss and hope that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children's book of the Year Award. 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

For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies

to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens

Robert "Doc" Wright

threatening to overwhelm her

and continues to ask: is it obscenity - or is it tenderness

the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor

and he is in fact dead

and the commentary draws on a wide range of published sources

and she is called on to help

the world will change around them

the death toll was vast

'Beautiful