Skellig, David Almond
Skellig, David Almond
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Skellig

Author: David Almond

Series: Skellig

Narrator: David Almond

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2009


Synopsis

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 of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .

About The Author

David Almond grew up in a large family in northeastern England and says, “The place and the people have given me many of my stories.” He worked as a postman, a brush salesman, an editor, and a teacher but began to write seriously after he finished college. His first novel for children, Skellig, was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book and an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book and appeared on many best book of the year lists.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maggie on May 21, 2014

Well, that was excellent. This book is a brief mouthful of myth and hope and atmosphere. Reasons to read it? 1. There's a magical, irritable man in the narrator's garage. He likes Chinese take out and dead mice. 2. There is a wise and judgmental girl-neighbor who becomes the narrator's best friend. 3.......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on November 28, 2016

I read this about ten years ago now, and I’d completely forgotten about how much I loved it at the time. As soon as I picked it up and began reading it again I remembered why. The story of the rebirth of Skellig is a wonderful little tale; it is an allegory for the ever evolving nature of man, and h......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on November 30, 2017

3.5 stars. Lovely little fable, only 170 pages I finished it pretty quickly and really enjoyed it. Sweet tale of friendship, family, love and imagination. Michael finds what he assumes to be a homeless man - hiding out in the garage of the new house he has moved into with his parents and baby sister......more

Goodreads review by karen on September 01, 2021

i'm no teen, so i can't adequately judge this. it seems more interesting than some of the teen fiction books out back when i was wee, but more like a fable or a fairy tale than a full length novel. not a waste of an hour and a half.... come to my blog!......more

Goodreads review by Clare on March 05, 2008

I wept. Buckets. And was happier for it. My son had this book for a school project so I read it to help him out. He had to prise it from my fingers after an hour and a half, and I wanted to go back and read it again. It embodies all that I think is good in Young Adult fiction, an unspoiled, simple bu......more


Quotes

"Its strength as a novel is in its subtlety. . . . Skellig is a fine book." — The New York Times Book Review

"British novelist Almond makes a triumphant debut in the field of children’s literature with prose that is at once eerie, magical, and poignant." — Publishers Weekly, Starred


Awards

  • ALA Notable Children's Book
  • Carnegie Medal
  • Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award
  • Maine Student Book Master List
  • Massachusetts Children's Book Master List
  • Michael L. Printz Honor Book
  • New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award
  • New York Times Best Book of the Year
  • Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year
  • School Library Journal Best Book of the Year