The Wild Way Home Sophie Kirtley This middle-grade adventure about courage and family will plunge you back into the Stone Age ... and then lead you home. When Charlie’s brother is born with a heart condition, Charlie runs to the forest, upset and afraid. There Charlie finds a boy floating in the stream, injured, yet alive. But when Charlie tries to fetch help, the forest has changed. It’s become as strange as the boy dressed in deerskins. For Charlie has unwittingly fled into the Stone Age, with no way to return to the present day. Or is there ... ? What follows is a wild, big-hearted adventure as Charlie and the Stone Age boy set out together to find what they have lost – their courage, their hope, their family and their way home.
9 July 2020
Bloomsbury Children’s Books
PAPERBACK / 9781526616289 / £6.99 EBOOK / 9781526616272 / £6.70 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY TERRITORY: WO
Fans of Piers Torday will love this wild, wise and heartfelt debut. Sophie Kirtley grew up in Northern Ireland. Nowadays she lives in Wiltshire with her family and their mini-menagerie of pets and wild things. She is an author, a poet and a teacher.
FICTION 9–11 YEARS
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