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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2014 | Grades 5-8
Gr 3–7—"When the rest of the world grew too hot, and cracked open in the sun, everyone came to live on this cold grey rock." In a future world that is largely without animals because of a terrible virus, 12-year-old Kester Jaynes, who hasn't spoken since his mom died, is called by the cockroaches to help save the last enclave of wildlife from the deadly plague. At first, Torday's in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
Electively mute Kester, institutionalized in a school for troubled children, lives in a barren dystopia where most animals have died from ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
