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GECDSB
Think Literacy Student Success Initiative |
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REQUIRED READING ABILITY:
Low SUMMARY: Skellig appears to be a man,
propped up in a dark corner of the garage, but Michael isn’t sure.
He leaves, not knowing if he actually saw what he thinks he saw, or if
his imagination was playing tricks. When he returns and sees the man again,
he tries to speak with him and eventually offers the stranger, Skellig,
his help. An extraordinary friendship begins, as Michael begins to care
for Skellig. The friendship deepens when Michael brings another new friend,
his neighbour Mina, to meet Skellig. Mina is an unusually precocious and
perceptive child who loves the poet William Blake, is into nature, and
is home-schooled. She has no difficulty in accepting Skellig. Together
they work to give Skellig a new chance at life, and in turn, learn some
important life lessons of their own… WHO WOULD LOVE THIS BOOK? A kid who...
WHAT ELSE? This is a fascinating and usual
story. It has a unique way of describing Michael's feelings of loneliness
and worry about his baby sister, and is quite an easy read. The reader
never does find out what type of creature Michael found, or how Skellig
may have altered Michael’s destiny, and the uncertainty of this
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