Description
Product ID: | 9780008256944 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The 1,000-year-old Boy |
Authors: | Author: Ross Welford |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER. 'A wonderful story' Kiran Millwood Hargrave The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER.''A wonderful story'' Kiran Millwood HargraveThere are stories about people who want to live forever.This is not one of those stories.This is a story about someone who wants to stop…Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy – except he’s 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England.Obviously no one believes him.So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance, and a different way to live…… which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die. |
Imprint Name: | HarperCollins Children's Books |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-01-11 |