The Wreck of the Zanzibar

Author: Morpurgo, Michael

Brand: Farshore

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 112

Release Date: 01-09-2007

Part Number: 9781405233361

Details: A gripping children’s story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.
“We all knew what was going to happen. We’d seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again.… Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Laura’s twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems there’s little hope. But then the Zanzibar is wrecked on the island’s rocks, and everything changes …
The Wreck of the Zanzibar is a gripping historical adventure from the author of An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden. Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children’s Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.
Michael Morpurgo's book 'There Once is a Queen' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 06-06-2022.

EAN: 9781405233361

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches

Languages: English