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    The Last Wild
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    The Last Wild
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Last Wild

    Written by Piers Torday

    Narrated by Oliver Hembrough

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 18, 2014
    ISBN9780698146754
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    The Last Wild
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    Piers Torday

    Piers Torday was born in Northumberland, which is possibly the one part of England where more animals live than people. After working as a producer and writer in theatre, live comedy and TV, he now lives in London – where there are more animals that you might think. The Last Wild is followed by the sequel (and concluding volume) The Dark Wild. You can find out more about Piers and follow his blog at www.pierstorday.co.uk.

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    • 4/5
      An enjoyable eco-adventure set in a future England with strong human and animal characters: Kester Jaynes, Polly, the "General" cockroach, pigeons, the stag, a wolf-cub, a harvest mouse and more. Kester can speak to animals, but not people. Polly is not afraid to speak for all. Together, they become ambassadors for the rights of animals and humans, braving dangers and opening the way to truth. A map helps readers follow the characters' travels. I look forward to reading the sequel.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this inventive action packed dystopian children's book that brought up moral issues surrounding our relationships with animals, the earth, and human greed.
    • 3/5
      Kester lives in a facility run by a large corporation. In his world, all the animals are dead, killed by a disease known as the redeye. All the foodstuffs and plants that might have fed the animals have been destroyed so any remaining animals would starve. The people live on a manufactured formula. Separated from his family, Kester lives a miserable limited existance, until he finds himself talking to a cockroach. Escaping the facility, he finds himself out in the wilderness with a group of surviving animals.
    • 2/5
      children's middlegrade fantasy with sci-fi elements. almost 13-year-old boy discovers he can talk to animals and then is tasked with saving them and the last wild place with the help of his scientist dad and by uncovering the truth about the disease that has brought about the collapse of society and those who have since taken power. I found myself skipping the descriptive bits to get to the dialogue parts (either it is a little slow, or I am just impatient right now).
    • 4/5
      A really gripping and engaging dystopian book, for the quite young! How fine!

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