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Another stunning and stimulating book from David Almond... Highly recommended!
(English Drama Media )Your pupils will enjoy this, I am certain. Do try it.
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Hodder Literature: an exciting series of literature titles for Key Stage 3 for whole class use.
Davie and his best friend Geordie are ordinary boys, growing up in a close-knit Catholic community in Tyneside. Then a new boy arrives. Stephen Rose has a disturbed past but he also possesses artistic talents and a strange power over people. Stephen makes astonishingly lifelike clay models and persuades Davie to help him make a clay monster who will obey his creators. The monster comes to life and seems torn between the 'good' Davie and the 'evil' Stephen. Then Steven uses the monster, Clay, to attack the local bully Martin Mould (Mouldy). Mouldy is killed and this creates a crisis of conscience for Davie. Stephen disappears and Davie gains some peace by burying Clay's remains in his garden. Was he ever real or not? As Davie says at the end of the book: 'You don't believe me. Doesn't matter. Tell yourself it's just a story, nothing more.'
Davie and his best friend Geordie are ordinary boys, growing up in a close-knit Catholic community in Tyneside. Then a new boy arrives. Stephen Rose has a disturbed past but he also possesses artistic talents and a strange power over people. Stephen makes astonishingly lifelike clay models and persuades Davie to help him make a clay monster who will obey his creators. The monster comes to life and seems torn between the 'good' Davie and the 'evil' Stephen. Then Steven uses the monster, Clay, to attack the local bully Martin Mould (Mouldy). Mouldy is killed and this creates a crisis of conscience for Davie. Stephen disappears and Davie gains some peace by burying Clay's remains in his garden. Was he ever real or not? As Davie says at the end of the book: 'You don't believe me. Doesn't matter. Tell yourself it's just a story, nothing more.'
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Clay is at times an unsettling book, scary even. It's the story of Davie, Georgie and the new boy in town, Stephen Rose. Where is Stephen from, what's his past and why is he so confident that he can help Davie and Georgie deal with the monstrous Martin Mould and his gang? Slowly, the truth behind Stephen's past starts to emerge. Davie finds himself drawn to Stephen's strange world of Clay figures. Overall Brilliant!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When I first started to read this book it reminded me of the things they used to make us read at school - kind of old fashioned, and definately a boys' book, I thought, but very quickly I was drawn in by the plot and the characters until I couldn't put it down. The use of language is fairly simple, and yet the story is very profound, and pretty creepy and scary too. I found I could identify well with the main character Davie, who is sweet and good hearted, and I was totally creeped out by the sinister Stephen and his crazy mind-control powers, not to mention his gift for making things out of clay. I recomended it to my twelve year old son, who read it and enjoyed it and has asked me to buy him more books by the author.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"I am here master, command me."
Thirteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, have a wild time when Stephen Rose moves into Crazy Mary's house; she's the craziest woman they know. When the church paster informs Davie that he is expected to be friends with this new, weird kid, he is in shock.
When Stephen shows Davie how they both have powers to make things come to life, Davie's life starts falling apart. He and Geordie are not friends anymore, he's stealing from his church, the girl he loves thinks he's crazy, and he and Stephen Rose are making a life-size monster--and it makes absolutely no sense at all.
When this brilliant idea of bringing something to life turns into a total meltdown and starts to kill someone, Davie has no choice but the obvious. What will he do, or what can he do?
This is a great book that I think explores the unknown imagination. It is a well-written story that has exciting detail in each chapter.
Reviewed by: Holly
Thirteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, have a wild time when Stephen Rose moves into Crazy Mary's house; she's the craziest woman they know. When the church paster informs Davie that he is expected to be friends with this new, weird kid, he is in shock.
When Stephen shows Davie how they both have powers to make things come to life, Davie's life starts falling apart. He and Geordie are not friends anymore, he's stealing from his church, the girl he loves thinks he's crazy, and he and Stephen Rose are making a life-size monster--and it makes absolutely no sense at all.
When this brilliant idea of bringing something to life turns into a total meltdown and starts to kill someone, Davie has no choice but the obvious. What will he do, or what can he do?
This is a great book that I think explores the unknown imagination. It is a well-written story that has exciting detail in each chapter.
Reviewed by: Holly
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Clay
I couldn't get into this book at all. A sad teen comes to town and two altar boys are asked to befriend him. The sad boy, Stephen Rose, sees something he likes in Davie. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ady
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I expected an average YA book here but I should've remembered the wonderful spookiness 'Skellig' gave me because this book chilled me to the bones in places. Read more
Published on 30 July 2008 by SJSmith
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Cant believe how unsettling i found this book. Best book ive read in years. I know its marketed as a kids book, but im 42 and it managed to press all the buttons more than any... Read more
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I loved this book. I've just finished reading it as a teacher who is sharing it with a group of 12year olds. They're loving it too. Read more
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Having read 'Skellig' and other novels by David Almond, I was certainly excited by the prospect of another. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2007 by Martin Aitchy
Weird, gripping stuff
I read this for the Carnegie shadowing and found it to be excellent. This book can be interpreted in lots of different ways, and I think that it is people's interpretations of this... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2006 by A reader
The author of "Skellig" has outdone himself here...
An awesome read, in short. The author of "Skellig", one of the most recognisable Young Adult books in print, David Almond, has written this book, "Clay", with arguably even more... Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2006 by J. Stubbs
Couldn't put it down...
I haven't read anything else by Almond and only bought this because of my own interestin clay...I found it took me a bit of guessing to get what I assume is the Newcastle accent he... Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2006 by robipots
Carnegie Shadowing
i am sorry to say i had to read this book for a carnegie shadowing group (for which it was inappropiatly entered for). Read more
Published on 21 July 2006 by Alex
Clay
A modern day Frankenstien or Paradise Lost, this is by far the best book by him I have read. I really enjoyed it.
Published on 6 Jun 2006 by Charlotte Longman
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