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The Last Wild: Book 1

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The Last Wild: Book 1 by Piers Torday, and Piers Torday

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By Piers Torday, and and, Piers Torday

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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, 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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26 Sep 2023

This book is about a boy who lived in Spectrum Hall for six years because of a deadly virus called the red eye.The Facto, the people who keep the children, said that the food run out and the animals are deadly but what they say is totally not true…then Kester finds a friend who has a cat. They have to get to Kester’s dad to make a cure for the red eye But it will be a very dangerous mission. I really like this book because it shows that people that can’t do something that ordinary people can do do things that ordinary people cant do.

12 Nov 2022

It was an amazing book I enjoyed it and I loved how many surprising turns there were in the book. I recommend it for 10 to 11 years old.

25 Sep 2022

ingeneous plot with loveable animal characters. Feisty boy and girl protagonists. An enjoyable read.

13 Aug 2020

I liked this book because it was very adventurous. In this story, a boy called Kester had to save all the animals in the kingdom before they all died from a disease called Red Eye.

05 Aug 2018

I really liked this book as I love animals and wish I could talk to animals.
My mum got me this book as she heard about it and thought this book would be good for children of all ages that love animals as much as I do. But my favourite character is Polly. Because she had sass.

22 Aug 2017

I love this book! It is about a boy who can talk to animals. He meets a girl called Polly whose parents have gone missing. Together in this future world they save the animals in the city they live in .I have read a few other books in this trilogy.

03 Aug 2017

this is an epic book about what might happen if the animals were all almost extinct because of a disease called red eye

01 Aug 2017

For older readers

27 Jul 2017

Really magical and difficult to put down

26 Jul 2017

A very adventurous and good book very good for people that love adventure
i love it

26 Jul 2017

I really enjoyed this book because it was adventurous and interesting!

24 Jul 2017

It was is a good book, and it had lots of adventures. In the book there are 6 parts. I'm reading The Dark Wild now.

30 Jun 2017

The Last Wild was an amazing book full of adventures and a great plot I really enjoyed it. What I liked best about this book was the animals. I would recommend this book to all animal lovers but also to adventure lovers. Piers Torday is an incredible author and I will definitely look forward to reading more of his books. I love Tordays way of writing and everyone should read this book and you should definitely read it .

03 Jan 2017

This is not the kind of book I would look at and say 'hmm this looks interesting, I'm going to read it' but we had to read it in our literacy lesson and as I was reading this I started to see it getting interesting.
So it's a story about a boy who gets put into this home because his father is a scientist and he can't talk, he lost his mum, but one day he sees animals all in his room and realises he can talk to them, but not physically he cant talk to them in his mind. These animals are ill, very ill, they have a disease which could kill them. They all try to look for Kester's father, the scientist hoping he could make a cure for the animal. In the end they find their dad but they find out they have another story in their life...

15 Dec 2016

This book is amazing to me because I love animals and nature but I think you should read it because it is a great story about a boy who can't speak but he can talk to animals through his mind and saves the Last wild (that is how they call themselves.)

15 Sep 2016

moving

08 Sep 2016

This book was AMAZING!It showed me the feelings of all the charecters in the book and really whisked me away.Has Piers Torday written any more books because I would like to read them?

01 Sep 2015

A great story of suspense.

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