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The Last Wild

Piers Torday (2015-01-22)

Subgenre
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages353 (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age10
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Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

Animal DeathCaptivityPlague/EpidemicAbandonmentIsolation

Positive tags

Animal CompanionsFound FamilySurvivalHopeful EndingSelf-Discovery

Hero archetypes

OrphanReluctant HeroOutcast / Loner

Protagonist archetypes

Chosen OneComing-of-Age ProtagonistLast Survivor

Tropes

Post-ApocalypticDystopiaReluctant HeroAnimal CommunicationQuest

Themes

Coming of AgeEnvironmental CollapseEnvironmentalismExtinctionHopeHuman-Animal ConnectionIsolationSurvival

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes, who has been locked away at a school for troubled children, is called upon to save the last animals living in a post-apocalyptic world where disease has killed most living things.

Tags

Environmental FictionAdventureAnimal FictionCli-Fi

Is The Last Wild appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 10 and up.

A middle grade post-apocalyptic adventure with environmental themes and mild peril. The story deals with disease and animal extinction, but handles these topics age-appropriately with hope and heroism at its core.

What to know going in

This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include captivity, animal death, and plague/epidemic (see the full list above).

Who'll love this

Kids who love animals and adventure will root for a lonely boy on a mission to save the last creatures on Earth.