The Last Wild
This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:
1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.
2. They are talking to him.
3. His life will never be quite the same again . . .
Carnegie Medal in Literature Nominee (2014); Waterstones Children's Book Prize Shortlist (2014); Shrewsbury Children's Book Award Shortlist (2014); Calderdale Children's Book of the Year Shortlist (2014); UKLA Award Shortlist (2014); Coventry Inspiration Award Shortlist (2014); Branford Boase Award Longlist (2014)
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About the Last Wild Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Last Wild(2013)
- 2.The Dark Wild(2014)
- 3.The Wild Beyond(2015)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
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?