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Out of the Ashes
Michael Morpurgo
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Description for Out of the Ashes
Paperback. A powerful and moving fictional account of true events, by one of the most acclaimed children's writers of our time. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: YFB; YXZG. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
This story is not a story at all. It all happened.
On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed for ever. Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home, but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected and every animal is destroyed. Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd, the sows with their piglets, and Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb, survive? Or will they be slaughtered too?
The waiting and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447207337
SKU
V9781447207337
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo’s novels for children have made him one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers of his generation. He is the winner of the Red House Children’s Book Award, the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. His novel PRIVATE PEACEFUL, about two brothers serving ... Read more
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