The Last Man Alive
By Alexander Sutherland Neill
The world has gone quiet—can one teacher and his pupils outsmart its dangerous new rules?
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What is The Last Man Alive about?
When a mysterious green cloud sweeps across the world, almost everyone is turned to stone. A teacher, his pupils and a few companions survive because they are travelling high above the Earth. Returning home, they find empty cities, wild animals and dangerous strangers. As they journey through a changed world, the children must use courage, quick thinking and teamwork to stay alive. Told with dark humour and imaginative twists, this strange adventure asks what people might do when the old rules of society suddenly disappear.
Pages
255 pages
Reading age
Junior (8-13)
This edition
1969
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