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Secret Heart - David Almond

 
Description: ISBN 0340944986 / Author: David Almond / Genre: Junior Books / Joe lives in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the ... more
Secret Heart - David Almond ... suburbs. His once-loving mother has fallen under the influence of her boyfriend, whose presence overshadows Joe's every move. Joe's friend Stanny thinks that Joe should toughen up with a weekend in the wilderness.

Newest Review: ... Joe Maloney but also more than Joe Maloney. Out here by day he could rise into the blue like a skylark. At night he could ... more

 ... flicker through the darkness like a bat. He emptied his mind now of being just Joe Maloney. He felt weasel fur growing on the backs of his hands. He felt claws where his fingers were. He hissed and he was a snake slipping through ancient cellars beneath the Blessed Chapel. He crouched on all fours and his face and teeth sharpened as he took on the shape of a fox. Nobody knew that he knew how to do these things. They were secret, things that...more

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"You were the loveliest thing I ever saw, tiny bonny baby lying at my side. I knew from your very first cry that you'd feel things more than any other, be scared more than any other, be overjoyed more than any other. I knew you wouldn't have an easy ride." And, just as his mother predicted, for Joe Maloney life is not an easy ride. On the outside he is a shy, lonely child with odd ways and a stammer. Words trip themselves up on his tongue, and often they trip him up, in his head, before they even get to his tongue. Other people; teachers, children, anyone really, confuse and frighten Joe. They are so clumsy and brash, and physical and ...  Read the complete review

 

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