Where the world ends
In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Flatiron Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in the United Kingdom by Usborne Publishing Ltd in 2017. Includes afterword about the history of St. Kilda, list of the birds of St. Kilda, and glossary. |
| Physical Description: | 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781250225498 1250225493 |
| Author Notes: | Her writing career includes the retelling of such classics as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, The Canterbury Tales, and The Bronze Cauldron: Myths and Legends of the World, which is a collection of stories from all over the world. She has received numerous awards including three Whitbread Children's Book Awards for A Little Lower Than the Angels, Gold Dust, and Not the End of the World. She also received the Guardian Prize and Carnegie Medal for A Pack of Lies, the Beefeater Children's Novel Award for Gold Dawn, the Michael L. Printz Award for The White Darkness, and the 2018 Carnegie Medal for children's and YA books for her middle-grade novel Where the World Ends. (Bowker Author Biography) |
