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|summary=In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, 15 year old Willo must move away from the mountain on which he grew up to search for his missing family. This journey will destroy everything he's believed about his past. He soon comes to realise that the trick is to prevent it from destroying him.
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'''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
 
On a near future Earth, Willo lives with his family in an isolated community without technology. His parents remember a time when there were machines but all this has changed. Now there's only enough petrol for the sinister government trucks. One day Willo finds himself totally alone, his parents missing, presumed taken. Armed with his father's cryptic sayings and his only friend, (a dog's skull that speaks through his imagination) Willo leaves all that's familiar in order to find his loved ones. The unknown is a ruthless place filled with Stealers and starvation but there's escape from what he needs to do.