Darren Simpson

Scavengers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A unique coming-of-age story with a jaw-dropping secret at its heart, Scavengers is an unforgettable, contemporary twist on The Jungle Book meets Stig of the Dump.

"Extraordinary...a hugely compassionate and sophisticated novel about inclusion and exclusion." - The Observer

"Stayed with me long after I finished it...a hard-to-put-down tale of tweenage derring-do." - The Guardian

A Guardian/Observer Best Book of the Year
Nominated for the Northern Ireland Book Award
A School Librarian Best Book by a Debut Author
Selected for the Summer Reading Challenge
Selected for Empathy Lab's Read for Empathy Collection

Landfill has lived his whole life as a scavenger, running with wooflings, swimming with turtles and feasting on whatever he can catch.

Old Babagoo has always looked after him, on one condition. Follow Babagoo's rules. And the most important rule of all is NEVER go beyond the wall. But Landfill longs to venture Outside. And some rules are made to be broken.

Darren Simpson's exhilarating storytelling will make you think about the world differently in this urgent, compelling tale for our times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Usborne Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474965620
• Artikelnr.: 55406466

Autorenporträt

Darren Simpson is in his thirties and lives with his wife and children in Nottingham. He has written numerous adult short stories, and The Dust on the Moth, a crowdfunded multimedia collaboration including music downloads, art and photography. This is his first book for younger readers.

Rezensionen

A book unlike any other - I was totally unprepared for the twists! Alex Wheatle, Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize