Book description
Kyle has always been afraid of things, especially dying. But when he
gets on the train that is taking him and his class on a school trip,
he has no idea how close to Death he is going to come. Death enters
the train and Kyle moves with him, past his friends, who are frozen in
time, in life-or-death situations. Kyle finds that he can pick up on
their deepest, darkest fears - real things that have happened to them,
or may happen in the future, and sometimes their surreal nightmares
too.
Kyle realises that he isn't the only one who has buried fears and,
more importantly, he now burns with the desire to live, and to live
without fear. But will Death release him?
Malorie Blackman's books have won several awards, including the
Children's Book Award for
Noughts & Crosses
. She has also won the W. H. Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award and the
Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award, as well as being shortlisted for the
Carnegie Medal.
Pig-Heart Boy
was adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. In 2008 Malorie was
honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature.
