Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Secret Heart

0/5 ( ratings)

Joe Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him to be a man, and he can't be that yet. His only friend, Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and Joe can't learn that. Joe's mind is always somewhere else: on the weird creatures he sees in the distant sky, the songs he hears in the air around him, the vibrations of life he feels everywhere. Everybody laughs at Joe Maloney.

And then a tattered circus comes to town, and a tiger comes for him. It leads him out into the night, and nothing in Joe Maloney's world is ever the same again.

The transformative power of imagination and beauty flows through this story of a boy who walks where others wouldn't dare to go, a boy with the heart of a tiger, an unlikely hero who knows that sometimes the most important things are the most mysterious.

—From the hardcover edition.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Release: January 16, 2009

ISBN: 0440418275

ISBN 13: 9780440418276

Secret Heart

0/5 ( ratings)

Joe Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him to be a man, and he can't be that yet. His only friend, Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and Joe can't learn that. Joe's mind is always somewhere else: on the weird creatures he sees in the distant sky, the songs he hears in the air around him, the vibrations of life he feels everywhere. Everybody laughs at Joe Maloney.

And then a tattered circus comes to town, and a tiger comes for him. It leads him out into the night, and nothing in Joe Maloney's world is ever the same again.

The transformative power of imagination and beauty flows through this story of a boy who walks where others wouldn't dare to go, a boy with the heart of a tiger, an unlikely hero who knows that sometimes the most important things are the most mysterious.

—From the hardcover edition.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Release: January 16, 2009

ISBN: 0440418275

ISBN 13: 9780440418276

More books from David Almond

Skellig

3.7/5 ( ratings)

My Name Is Mina

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Kit's Wilderness

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Click: One Novel, Ten Authors

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Heaven Eyes

3.7/5 ( ratings)

A Song for Ella Grey

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Clay

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Savage

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Fire-Eaters

3.6/5 ( ratings)

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Dam

The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean Telt by Hisself

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Counting Stars

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Harry Miller's Run

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Free?: Stories About Human Rights

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Savage

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?