Kit's Wilderness
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Kit's Wilderness
Narrated by:
Charles Keating
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Narrated by:
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Charles Keating
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By:
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David Almond
Summary
A Michael L. Printz Award Winner
An ALA Notable Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century
The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit’s recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family has both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a game called Death. As Kit’s grandfather tells him stories of the mine’s past and the history of the Watson family, Askew takes Kit into the mines, where the boys look to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors.
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Critic Reviews
"Almond . . . creates a heartbreakingly real world fused with magical realism . . . suffusing the multilayered plot with an otherworldly glow." — Booklist, Starred
"Almond offers another tantalizing blend of human drama, surrealism and allegory." — Publishers Weekly, Starred
"Almond offers another tantalizing blend of human drama, surrealism and allegory." — Publishers Weekly, Starred
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