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Author Almond, David.

Title Half a creature from the sea : a life in stories / David Almond ; illustrated by Eleanor Taylor. [Boundless electronic resource]

Publication Info. Candlewick Pr Inc., 2015.
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Description 1 online resource
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Contents Slog's dad -- May Malone -- when God came to Cathleen's garden -- the missing link -- Harry Miller's run -- half a creature from the sea -- Joe Quinn's poltergeist -- Klaus Vogel & the bad lads.
Summary An anthology of dark, powerful and moving short stories from master storyteller David Almond, inspired by his childhood in the north-east of England. It features coming of age stories on the theme of closeness to home, deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction. David Almond says of this unique collection, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable, like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths, like the sea. These stories take place in a real world - but in fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand-in-hand with watery lies."
Audience HL 650 Lexile.
HL650L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.3 5 176921
Accelerated Reader MG+ 4.3 5 176921
System Details Requires Boundless App.
Subject Young adult fiction, English.
Young adult fiction, English.
England -- Juvenile fiction.
England.
Genre Autobiographical fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Short stories.
Young adult works.
Short stories.
Autobiographical fiction.
Added Author Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN 9780763686765 : $16.99
076368676X : $16.99
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