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Where the World Ends Spiral-Bound | 2021-07-20

Geraldine McCaughrean

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The Printz Honor and Carnegie Medal-winning book telling the unforgettable 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.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1250225507
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Winner of the Carnegie Medal
Kirkus Best Book of the Year
Junior Library Guild selection
Book of the Month Club selection
Indie Next Pick

"McCaughrean slips into the cracks of the human soul, dissecting with compassion the many paths that a person might take. Though this story is desperately sad at times, it glistens, too, propelled by the notion that where there is life, there is always, always hope." --Booklist, starred review

"An epic, nearly mythic tale. McCaughrean takes the bones of a real event, wraps it in immersive, imaginative detail and thoroughly real emotion, and creates an unforgettable tale of human survival. A masterpiece." --Kirkus, starred review

"McCaughrean's storytelling is as dramatic and harsh as the island itself. A stunning literary achievement." --BookPage, starred review

"Based on a true story, Where the World Ends stuns with its dark narrative and haunting visual imagery, exploring what happens when the everyday-ordinary turns disastrously extraordinary. Unforgettable." --Shelf Awareness

"Harshly beautiful, and stark with near-despair, this is an unsettling, deeply original historical novel." --The Guardian

"Based on a real event, this is a story that sings to the soul. It belongs in every school and library. This is stark, beautiful story-making...everything a magnificent read should be." --The Historical Novel Society

"Where the World Ends is a beautiful, sorrowful, poignant book with deeply drawn characters, a chilling atmosphere, and waves of emotion. Highly recommended." --New York Journal of Books

Geraldine McCaughrean is the author of the Michael L. Printz Award winner The White Darkness, the Michael L. Printz Honor book Where the World Ends, the New York Times bestseller Peter Pan in Scarlet, and many other books for children and young adults. She is one of only two-time winners of the Carnegie Medal, including for Where the World Ends. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband, John, and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books. Her cottage is under year-round siege from wild birds demanding to be fed. The ducks even knock on the door.