Where the World Ends

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a b Flood, Alison (2018-06-18). "Carnegie medal winner slams children's book publishers for 'accessible' prose". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023 . Retrieved 2023-06-06. I really enjoyed reading this book. I would recommend this to people who enjoy history and culture. Out of 10 I'd rate this 8 as historical accuracy is ok, but in parts tails away slightly into fantasy. My favourite character was the main character Quilliam. He is brave, curious and for most of the book very hungry as the storm patrol supplies were low. He is obsessed with Murdina Galloway, the girl who lived on the main land of St Kilda. Murdina also frequently appears in Quilliam's dreams causing the other island inmates to accuse the girl of witchcraft. What you have been reading is a true story … and there again, it’s not. Fiction is elastic: it stretches to encircle true facts and then crimps them into shape to create Story. The truth is that a party of eight (not nine) boys and three men went over to Stac an Armin, also known as Warrior Stac, from Hirta and were marooned there for nine months. The characters were all fine and I liked the interactions and relationships they all formed with one another over the course of the story. I’m not entirely sure what age-range this book is supposed to be aimed at, but I feel like if it had been a bit ‘darker’ (i.e. in relation to the characters’ mental deterioration) then it would’ve made for a more impactful story. I just wish the book had been more engaging. While it isn’t boring or flawed in execution or concept, it failed to grab me the way the best books in its genre tend to do. It conveys intensity and suspense, but not enough of it to evoke much feeling in me. In short, I was vaguely interested in what was happening, but I didn’t really care about any of it emotionally.

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Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home > Where the World Ends is set in 1727 and is about a group of boys (and a few men) who are left stranded on a sea stac located in St Kilda (off the coast of Scotland). For the most part I found this quite an interesting book, especially considering that it’s supposedly based on true events. The pacing was a little slow, but not to the point where it was starting to get boring. I felt like the ending was a little rushed, but apart from that, I didn’t really have any other issues. Her adult novels include Fires’ Astonishment (1990) and The Ideal Wife (1997), but she is best-known for her children’s books. She writes for children of all ages, from first readers, picture books, and younger children’s books, to children’s novels, which include A Little Lower than the Angels (1987), Gold Dust (1993) and Not the End of the World (2004), each of which have won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, making her the only writer to have won this award three times. Every time a lad came fowling on the St Kilda stacs, he went home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at all, that is…” This book is unique. The writing is not what I'm used to but it grows on me and I like the humor underneath it. The broken English in their conversation is hard to read but I'm guessing that it's how the people of Hirta talks. I like Murdo and his talks of sweethearts. I like John's surprise. I also like Quill for always having something to say and stories to tell, especially how he protects little Davie.

a b c Coulter, Emilie (2020-01-03). "Where the World Ends". Shelf Awareness . Retrieved 2023-06-07. Inspired by a true event, this is a breathtaking story of nine boys and the courage it takes to survive against the odds, from three-time winner of the Whitbread/Costa Children's Book Award Geraldine McCaughrean. It’s an interesting book conceptually, made more interesting by that fact that it is loosely based on a true story. The plot and the writing are both good and the atmosphere is intriguing, if not quite as satisfyingly creepy as I had hoped. The characters are satisfactorily rendered, though they’re mostly archetypes. LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2019". Archived from the original on 21 April 2019 . Retrieved 15 October 2019. Every Kilda man is part bird, because he knows how it feels to plummet out of the sky toward the brightness of sea." a b "Geraldine McCaughrean scoops second CILIP Carnegie Medal 30 years after first win and champions triumph of 'literary' fiction". The Yoto Carnegies . Retrieved 2023-06-06.

Told from the astute perspective of Quill, I felt very aware of each hardship, of each character’s personality - faults and kindnesses - and the absolute misery wondering why they’ve been abandoned. With little more than a cave for shelter and hunger nipping at their bellies, true natures are soon exposed; Some good, some not so much. One thing is undeniable, each boy and each man will be forever changed by their experience. Decided to read this because it won the Carnegie medal this year (and I thought the story sounded interesting).Istoria insulei Hirta din Arhipelagul St Kilda (Scoția) este tulburător de fascinantă. Nu știam nimic despre particularitățile insulei (nu există lemn) sau despre viața dificilă a locuitorilor; norocul meu că am zărit coperta la Bookfest și am descoperit o poveste emoționantă despre supraviețuire, camaraderie și speranță.

This is sort of a Lord of the Flies for the late 18th century crowd, with a little more God and a lot more dead birds. After surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. The character of Quilliam changes throughout the course of the book as he is forced to grow up and, through his storytelling, comfort the other boys. By the end of the novel though he has become disillusioned with life on St Kilda to the point where he considers abandoning his home for the mainland.I definitely enjoyed this read, so much so that I added The Life and Death of St Kilda to my reading wishlist. Each chapter has a related drawing and there is an appendix to help understand the birds. When I finished, I felt as though I had also braved the waves and the ferocious winds of those remote Atlantic isles. Viața pe insula Hirta și pe Stânca Războinicului nu este dificilă. Este nemiloasă și brutală. Păsărarii sunt obișnuiți cu condiții austere, dar tu ești un simplu novice și refuzi să accepți asemenea condiții de trai. Trebuie să înfrunți și să învingi inaniția, degerăturile, vremea potrivnică, credința, nebunia și egoismul. Trebuie să ignori fantasmele și să supraviețuiești. Speranța poposește în Quill, un protagonist curajos și cinstit, „povestitorul”, cel care refuză să-și abandoneze prietenii și vecinii, indiferent de prețul pe care trebuie să-l plătească. My favourite event was who Mr Farris was about to kill himself, but Quill and the whales prevented that from happening. I would sincerely recommend this book to young readers. Of course, Quill isn’t enough to sustain such a story alone. This is about the group and while his place within the group is neat the other characters are major factors. Three adults go to supervise the fowling while the nine boys are the workforce.