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The Last Wild Trilogy: The Last Wild: Book 1

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The Last Wild Trilogy: The Last Wild: Book 1 by Piers Torday

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By Piers Torday

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64 reviews

FROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN’S FICTION PRIZE. A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell

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22 Jan 2024

My favourite character was the stag. This is an adventure book and was exciting

30 Dec 2023

Great!

03 Sep 2023

Funny, exiting, suspensful and dramatic. I love the white pigeon.

02 Sep 2023

A fantastic story that shows the journey of a boy discovering how to cope in the world he finds himself in. The are some brilliant characters and interactions in the book particularly between Kester and the animals.

20 Aug 2023

It is better then the dark wild by far ,and it is a very good book.Piers Torday is a genius.

12 Aug 2023

It was a good read - good concept. Now need to read next book for ending

31 Jul 2023

This book is very heart warming and helps humans understand that we suffer a huge loss; animals dying out because of our actions

24 Jul 2023

Epic Full of Adventure!

16 Jul 2023

I really liked this book because it was an interesting concept for a book. I like the dystopia of a world with no animals and crops left. My favourite character was Sidney because she’s funny and a cat and I love cats. I like that it’s serious but there are some characters that lighten up the mood of it, I think it’s a good balance of serious with a little bit of silly. I would recommend this book to kids and teenagers who like animals, nature and adventure books.

01 Jul 2023

This book was amazing! full of twists turns and surprises, brilliant, I highly recommend it

15 Jun 2023

Amazing! A wonderfully told animal adventure story where a boy discovers he can communicate with animals but all animals have become extinct except for the pests. He ends up making friends with a bossy cockroach, a wolf-cub, a spoilt cat and a harvest mouse! Can he save the animals? Definitely read this book to find out.

22 Dec 2022

Very suspenseful

12 Aug 2022

This book was a fictional book.My favourite character would have to be the General. He was hilarious. This book was partly factual as it have some animal facts. I would recommend this to everyone who likes books.

08 Aug 2022

I would defo recommend this to someone else. I've always wished I could talk to humans and I liked that Kester stayed with the animals long enough that he could talk to them.

28 Jul 2022

The boy and the moose are insperatable

22 Jul 2022

I rate this book at four because it was very interesting but I really wish that it had a very dark twist to it

16 Jul 2022

I think this book full of adventure and my favorite person in this book Kester .It interest me because the back cover say some thing about pigeon(I like birdssssssss)

02 Oct 2021

This was a long interesting book about a virus that killed all the animals.it show perseverance and love showing we need to look after animals.the ending is not really an ending.

What do you life would be without animals?

14 Sep 2021

I love this book

12 Sep 2021

It was not quite what I was expecting. A little sci-fi/dystopian (well, sci-fi pre 2020!) A virus has swept across the world (sound familiar?) and wiped out most animals. The main character (12 yrs old) is mute but discovers he can communicate with the last animals left.

02 Sep 2021

Epic

31 Aug 2021

l loved this book!
The red-eye disease has killed all the animals,
Only pests still survive alongside human beings.
That's what Kester thought anyway...
Until The Last Wild changes his life!

19 Aug 2021

This is a very good book I would totally recommend it

17 Aug 2021

It was interesting looking at it as a possible future. I liked the twists in it

10 Aug 2021

A good series

03 Aug 2021

This has been on my shelf for a long time and I am so glad I decided to read it. It is such an original idea and it inspires so much wondering and thinking. The viral pandemic, the destruction of animals /the Earth, the monopoly of a large company are so relevant and would give rise to so much discussion.

31 Jul 2021

Once I started reading this book I did not want to put it down and I can't wait to read the next one. It has a very powerful message about conservation and preventing further animal extinctions.

30 Jul 2021

Quite adventurous can't really explain it in words. Once you start reading it you find you are stuck to it.

26 Jul 2021

It interested me because I never knew what was going to happen next

22 Jul 2021

Kester is incarcerated in Spectrum Hall. He has no voice, and no words, until approached by a cockroach named the General. He leaves the oppressive. clanging metal doors and gleaming laboratories of the Factorium for the muddy (and sometimes bloody) wilderness. Befriended by the last stag, he is called to save the remaining animals and to find a cure for the Red-Eye disease that has decimated this rocky island. A must-read in the hoof/paw prints of 'Watership Down' and 'Wolf Wilder'.

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