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Torday, Piers

The Last Wild

322 pp. | Viking | March, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-670-01554-2 $16.99
(4) 4-6 Electively mute Kester, institutionalized in a school for troubled children, lives in a barren dystopia where most animals have died from a "red eye" sickness. One day a cockroach busts him out and sends him on a mission to save the last wild animals from extermination. The fresh premise and Tim Burton–esque tone are promising, but one-note supporting characters and bland prose derail an otherwise successful book.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

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