03121cam a2200625 4500 531035796 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780763667252 0763667250 B00H2MLZCG Amazon 3a851828-1c40-4b3a-a161-b6a158772216 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1509472 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Almond, David. The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean [OverDrive]. Candlewick Press, 2014. family. dystopian. Faith. romance. parents. YA. teen. Religion. Young adult fiction. Healing. Young Adult. Adventure. Science Fiction. survival. dystopia. sci-fi. secrecy. fantasy. fantasy books. fantasy books for teens. young adult fantasy books. teen fiction books. fantasy books for kids age 12-15. ya lit. experimental narrative. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 922kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fantasy. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:<p>From master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, exquisitely written novel about a hidden-away child who emerges into a broken world. Billy Dean is a secret child. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the scents of candles and incense and cigarettes. Birds fly to his window. Mice run out from his walls. His world is a carpet, a bed, pictures of the holy island, and a single locked door. His father fills his mind and his dreams with mysterious tales and memories and dreadful warnings. But then his father disappears, and Billy's mother brings him out into the world at last. He learns the horrifying story of what was saved and what was destroyed on the day he was born, the day the bombers came to Blinkbonny. The kind butcher, Mr. McCaufrey, and the medium, Missus Malone, are waiting for him. He becomes The Angel Child, one who can heal the living, contact the dead, bring comfort to a troubled world. But there is one figure who is beyond healing, who comes looking for Billy himself—and is determined on a kind of reckoning.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/true-tale-of-3a8518?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/true-tale-of-3a8518?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/true-tale-of-3a8518?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)