Out of the Ashes (8 page)

Michael and his wife Clare live in Devon and set up Farms for City Children, a charity that enables 3,000 children every year to spend a week living and working in the
countryside. As a result of foot-and-mouth disease, the charity closed its farms, but was able to open them again after the epidemic was over.

‘A master of his art . . . able to react to a tremendous individual emotional shock with a focus which has created a lasting impression in this moving fiction’

School Librarian

‘A moving and thought-provoking novel . . . moving but delicately written... this book deserves to be read by adults and children alike’

Glasgow Herald

‘A heartfelt novel of rural life . . . this book will stand as a testimony to the troubled times that so many have faced’

Manchester Evening News

‘A hard-hitting . . . heartfelt account’

Times Educational Supplement

‘The changing nuances in Becky’s voice come across so vividly and the interplay between her, her parents and her adored animals with such economy of style –
but without any diminution of emotional impact’

Irish Times

‘Here is insight we can all feel, without the obscuring clouds of rights and wrongs, petty or political’

School Librarian

Also by Michael Morpurgo

The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

Arthur, High King of Britain

Billy the Kid

Born to Run

The Butterfly Lion

Cool!

The Dancing Bear

Dear Olly

An Elephant in the Garden

Escape from Shangri-La

Farm Boy

Friend or Foe

From Hearabout Hill

The Ghost of Grania O’Malley

Kaspar: Prince of Cats

Kensuke’s Kingdom

King of the Cloud Forests

Little Foxes

Long Way Home

The Marble Crusher

Mr Nobody’s Eyes

My Friend Walter

The Nine Lives of Montezuma

Private Peaceful

Running Wild

Shadow

Tom’s Sausage Lion

Toro! Toro!

Twist of Gold

Waiting for Anya

War

War Horse

The War of Jenkins’ Ear

The White Horse of Zennor

Why the Whales Came

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

First published in the UK 2001 by Macmillan Children’s Books

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