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Title: Kit's Wilderness
Author: David Almond
type of book: YA Fiction
call number: YA/Fic
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This book is strong in character, story and setting
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Summary:
Kit's family has decided to move back to Stoneygate, an old coal
mining town. Kit's Grandpa was a miner. In Stoneygate, many young children
died in the mines for hundreds of years. There is even a creepy monument to
dead children in the town. The names on the monument match the names of
children alive today - Kit, John, and Alison. Kit's new friend, John, comes
from a "bad" family. He runs a weird gang of kids who play "death" in the
old mine. He hypnotizes his friends and leaves them to "die" in the cave
alone. Each week a knife is spun and whoever it stops on must be left alone.
Will the knife point to Kit? Will he be left alone in the mine with the ghosts
of all the dead children?
I would recommend this book!
Other suggested reading:
Skellig, also by David Almond
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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David Almond's Website
Employee Initials: KS
Review Date: November 2004
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