The Gift

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A boy with psychic powers struggles to save his loved ones

When Davys mother deserts their family, Davys father packs his children into a rickety old car and takes them on a vacation. They drive to their mysterious old grandparents house in the sprawling Welsh countryside, a place so rural that running water is a novelty. It is there that Davy learns he has the gift. He has always seen the picturesimages in his head that tell of the future or the pastbut his grandmother explains that the gift is both a remarkable power and a terrible curse. It was the gift that killed Davys great-uncleand it is the gift that could save his life.

Seven years later, Davy is in high school, and for the first time he can remember, life is almost normal. But when he starts having troubling visions of his fathers new employer he knows that only he can save his family from destruction.

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One of the real masters of childrens literature. Philip Pullman

Peter Dickinson is a national treasure. The Independent

[A] master storyteller. School Library Journal

Author Bio

Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff ofPunch,and since then earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adults. His books have been published in several languages throughout the world.

The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was the first to win the Gold Dagger Award of the Crime Writers Association for two books running: The Glass-Sided Ants Nest (1968) and The Old English Peepshow (1969). Dickinson was shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for childrens literature and was the first author to win it twice.

Dickinson served as chairman of the Society of Authors and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 for services to literature. Peter Dickinson died on December 16, 2015, at the age of eighty-eight.