The Last Wild: Book 1 - Hardcover

Torday, Piers

3.9

3,678 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780878281 ISBN 13: 9781780878287

Publisher: Quercus Children's Books, 2013

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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 a bit mad.

But the animals have something to say...

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 over-enthusiastic wolf-cub, a spoilt show-cat, a dancing harvest mouse and a stubborn girl named Polly.

The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?

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Review:

'I haven't read a book this good and interesting since The Hunger Games ... an edge-of-your-seat fast-paced read' Guardian Children's website. (Guardian Children's website)

'An action-packed, dystopian eco-thriller with memorable characters, both animal and human, and a powerful message about the interdependence of man and nature. A promising debut' Daily Mail. (Daily Mail)

'A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure .... it could be the next big thing' Eoin Colfer. (Eoin Colfer)

'It's a grim but in no way depressing read, preaching hope amid dystopia' Financial Times. (Financial Times)

'The sequel had better come soon' Observer. (Observer)

'Inventive, with laughs, tears and cliffhangers' Sunday Times. (Sunday Times)

'Thrilling ... Written in a vivid, urgent style, its sense of loss at all the creatures we have lost or are losing may be as critical to the new generation as Tarka the Otter' Times. (Times)

'Splendid stuff' Eva Ibbotson. (Eva Ibbotson)

Book Description:

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, when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone a bit mad. But the animals have something to say...

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