The Last Wild Boy

By Hugh MacDonald and Hugh MacDonald

This is a new young adult novel by P.E.I.'s Poet Laureate. It is a dystopic story about Nora who lives in the walled city of Aahimsa, anidyllic community of girls and women working together to make a peaceful life free of the brutality of the outsiders. As the companionof the mayor of Aahimsa's daughter, Alice, she enjoys privileges that other women from the working class can only dream of.But when she and Alice find an outsider baby abandoned within the city walls, Nora starts to question whether the outsiders poseas much of a threat to her civilization as she's been taught. With the baby's life in danger, Nora must decide whether she's willingto give up everything she has to save him, and who she can trust to help her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927502993
• ISBN13: 9781927502990
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Acorn Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 16 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 11