The dam

By David Almond, Levi Pinfold

Subjects: Dams, fiction, Reservoirs, England, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Music, fiction, Music, Abandoned farms, Children's fiction, Dams, History and criticism, Juvenile fiction

Description: Kielder Water is a wild and beautiful place, rich in folk music and legend. Years ago, before a great dam was built to fill the valley with water, there were farms and homesteads in that valley and musicians who livened their rooms with song. After the village was abandoned and before the waters rushed in, a father and daughter returned there.