The savage

By David Almond

Subjects: Death, Reading Level-Grade 12, Parents, Reading Level-Grade 9, Children and death, Fantasy, Psychological aspects, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Authorship, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 6, Feral children, Authorship, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fathers, Reading Level-Grade 10, Fictitious characters, Imagination, fiction

Description: A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.