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Where the World Ends

by Geraldine McCaughrean

A summer hunt becomes a struggle to survive

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A summer hunt becomes a struggle to survive

Each summer, Quill and his companions are taken to a remote sea stac to hunt birds, an expedition that marks a step toward adulthood. This year, the boat that should bring them home never comes. Geraldine McCaughrean’s historical survival story places the boys in a stark landscape of stone and sea, where isolation, hunger and exposure turn a familiar seasonal outing into a test of endurance. The premise brings together the risks of growing up and the practical danger of being stranded, with the group’s survival at the center.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in historical fiction set in Europe.
  • Readers drawn to stories of survival and people stranded in remote places.
  • Readers interested in coming-of-age stories shaped by hardship and group endurance.

Themes

Survival and enduranceComing of ageIsolationFriendship and shared hardship

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Book overview

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book and Carnegie Medal Winner! New from Geraldine McCaughrean comes Where the World Ends, an extraordinary story of eight boys stranded on a rock in the middle of the sea, left to fight for their survival.

Every time a lad went fowling on the stacs, he came home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at all, that is.

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 such a forsaken place of stone and sea?

This is an extraordinary story of fortitude, endurance, tragedy and survival, set against an unforgettable backdrop of savage beauty.

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