The wreck of the Zanzibar - Michael Morpurgo

A gripping children's story fromWar Horseauthor and formerChildren's LaureateMichael Morpurgo.

"We all knew what was going to happen. We'd seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again. Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Laura's twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems there's little hope. But then the Zanzibar is wrecked on the island's rocks, and everything changes

The Wreck of the Zanzibarisa gripping historical adventure from the author ofAn Eagle in the Snow,Listen to the Moon,Shadow, andAn Elephant in the Garden. Michael Morpurgo has written more thanone hundredbooks for childrenand won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.