Everything you need to understand or teach The Last Wild by Piers Torday.
Piers Torday's The Last Wild is the first book in the eponymous trilogy. The novel is set in a dystopian future after a horrendous plague has made almost all the animals on the planet extinct. The Factorium capitalizes on the situation by selling a food-replacement formula that ultimately enables them to take over the government. But a young boy named Kester gains the power to speak with animals. He is summoned by the last of the beasts and is given a mission to save the world. The novel explores complacency, intellect, human supremacy, the ethics of meat, and mega-corporations.
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