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The Last Wild

by Piers Torday

Ages 9–12 Reading age 10 Novel Set in outdoors and wild places adventurousthoughtful

A plague has killed the animals and Kester has not spoken in years. Then a cockroach speaks to him, and a flock of pigeons breaks him out.

A story about children and animals, adventurous and thoughtful in tone. We would put it with children of 9–12, and at a reading age of about 10 for reading alone.

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