The savage

David Almond First published 2008

About this book

A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.

Subjects

  • authorship
  • authorship, fiction
  • children and death
  • children's fiction
  • death
  • fantasy
  • fathers
  • feral children
  • fiction
  • fictitious characters
  • imagination, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • parents
  • psychological aspects
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 6
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9