Out of the Ashes

by Michael Morpurgo M.B.E., Michael Foreman (Illustrator)

Overview

On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed forever. Foot and mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morley's Devon home, but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected and every animal is destroyed. Will the Morley's flock be next? Will their pedigree diary herd, the sows with their piglets, and Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb, survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting and hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447207337
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	05/10/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

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 in World War I, featured on the shortlists of four major literary prizes.