The Last Wild (#1 The Last Wild)
Author(s): Piers Torday
In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone crazy. But the animals have something to say. And they need him. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester's help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along the way by an overenthusiastic wolf cub, a military-trained cockroach, a mouse with a ritual for everything, and a stubborn girl named Polly. The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?
Product Information
Shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize: Fiction 5 - 12 Category 2014.
'A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure' --Eoin Colfer. 'Splendid stuff' Eva Ibbotson. 'A gripping, original and memorable debut' --Francesca Simon. 'I haven't read a book this good [...] since The Hunger Games' --Guardian.
General Fields
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- : Hachette Children's Books
- : Quercus Children's Books
- : 0.328
- : 31 August 2013
- : 198mm X 132mm
- : 01 September 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paperback
- : Piers Torday