num_pages: 336
description: In a world where animals no longer exist twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach Kester thinks he's finally gone crazy. But the animals have something to say. And they need him. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester's help and together they must embark on a great journey joined along the way by an overenthusiastic wolf cub a military-trained cockroach a mouse with a ritual for everything and a stubborn girl named Polly. The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?
language: English
title: The Last Wild
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers