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Title:  When the Sky Falls

Written by: Phil Earle 

Age Category: Children (10+) 

Award winning author

Shortlisted The Carnegie Medal 2022
Winner Nibbie's Children's Book of the Year / Book of the Year 2022

'A magnificent story...it deserves every prize going.'
Phillip Pullman, award winning author of His Dark Materials series

When the Sky Falls is a new title from Phil Earle, inspired by a true story.

It’s 1940, and Joseph has been packed off to stay with Mrs F, a gruff woman with no great fondness for children. To Joseph’s amazement, she owns the rundown city zoo where Joseph meets Adonis, a huge silverback gorilla. Adonis is ferociously strong and dangerous, but Joseph finds he has an affinity with the lonely beast. But when the bombs begin to fall, it is up to Joseph to guard Adonis’s cage should it be damaged by a blast. Will Joseph be ready to pull the trigger if it comes to it?

 

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