"I tell you, boy, you take. But then...it take you. More and
more...you want it until you are dead but cannot die." Old Nancy's
words are prophetic but Josh, popular and happy, becomes a victim
of his active imagination. When he finds a cat's skull belonging to
the strange pagan woman who feeds wild cats on a vacant lot, Josh
assumes that it is powerful magic. He keeps it, thinking that it
will help him to deal with Kevin, a sinister bully who has joined
his class. The skull seems to act like a curse when Kevin steals it
and gains mastery over Josh's friends. They beat him up on a lonely
path beside a railway. Unless Josh can find a solution to his
problem, there may be worse to come. "The Skull" is a story of
self-discovery by a child of eleven on the brink of maturity. The
pagan superstition in the book, combined with conflict between Josh
and the psychopathic Kevin, resembles award winning author David
Almond's "Clay." A similar theme of bullying appears in Anne Fine's
"The Tulip Touch" pagan magic features in Theresa Breslin's
"Whispers in the Graveyard" and Harriet Goodwin's "The Hex Factor."
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