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Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018

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Where the World Ends

Geraldine McCaughrean

Age: 12+

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Where the World Ends

By: Geraldine McCaughrean

Age 12+

RRP  £7.99

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Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home.

Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned - cold, starving and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive?

'Brilliant, beautiful...as unpredictable as the sea itself' Philip Reeve, author of The Mortal Engines

'This is the best book I've read this year. Extraordinary' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars

Extent:
336 pages
Dimensions:
198.5 x 138.5mm
Paperback ISBN:
9781474943437
Accelerated Reader Book Level:
6.4
Accelerated Reader Interest Level:
Middle years + (MY+)
Book Band:
Grey
Key Stage:
KS3
Publication Date:
February 2018
Work Reference:
04071
Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice: first in 1988 with A Pack of Lies and again in 2018 with Where the World Ends. She's won the IBW Book Award 2018, the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award four times, the prestigious U.S. Printz Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books.

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Winner

The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018

Winner

Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Awards 2018

Shortlisted

St Helens Schools Library Service Book Awards 2018

Shortlisted

Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2018

Shortlisted

Hillingdon Secondary Book of the Year 2018

Shortlisted

St Helens Schools Library Service Book Awards 2019

Longlisted

The UKLA Book Awards 2018

Longlisted

Lancashire Book of the Year Award 2018

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It's a rare book that can transport us back into the rapture of childhood reading, but this is one.

The Guardian

Harshly beautiful, and stark with near-despair, this is an unsettling, deeply original historical novel.

The Guardian

McCaughrean writes extraordinary books: emotionally thunderous stories that evoke place and atmosphere with uncommon vigour, and are expressed with exhilarating precision of language...

The Sunday Times

Everything Geraldine McCaughrean touches turns to gold.

The Sunday Times

An awe-inspiring writer.

Sunday Telegraph

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Visit Usborne Quicklinks for links to websites where you can take a modern-day cruise to St Kilda, sail around the sea stacs, find out more about fulmars, guillemots and other sea birds, and learn more about St Kilda a hundred years ago.

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Teachers’ resources

Key themes of faith and religion, education and knowledge, community and isolation, and gender, are explored through discussion and analysis and creative tasks aimed at KS3.
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