Kit's Wilderness

by David Almond

Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 12+

Published by Hachette, 2008

Adventure
Classics
Coming-of-age
Ghost story
Thriller

About this book

When Kit moves to a village with his parents to care for his grandfather, he becomes involved with a dangerous boy who organises the Game of Death. After playing the game, Kit is haunted by the ghosts of children who died in the pits many years before. Superbly written, this is a dark, deeply moving tale of friendship and optimism.

About the author

David Almond is the highly acclaimed author of Skellig, The Savage, Clay, My Name Is Mina, My Dad's a Birdman, Slog's Dad and many other novels, stories and plays. His books are translated into almost forty languages and are widely adapted for stage and screen. His numerous awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Children's Book Awards and Le Prix Sorcieres, and in 2010 he gained the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international prize for children's authors. David lives with his family in Hexham, Northumberland.