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Almond, David

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

256 pp. | Candlewick | January, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-6309-4 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-7636-6725-2
(2) YA Billy grows up locked away with his mother by his philandering priest father. Outside is Blinkbonny, a bombed-out town on Britain's northeast coast. When his father disappears, Billy emerges as "the Aynjel Childe," a medium. Almond's earthy mysticism is made potent by uneducated Billy's poetic imagination and phonetic spelling in the text ("The pensil wanders across the payper lyk a little beest creepin hoaplesly across the rubbl...").
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2014

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