Scavengers
Darren Simpson
A unique coming-of-age story with a jaw-dropping secret at its heart, Scavengers is an unforgettable, contemporary twist on The Jungle Book meets Stig of the Dump.
""Extraordinary…a hugely compassionate and sophisticated novel about inclusion and exclusion."" – The Observer
""Stayed with me long after I finished it…a hard-to-put-down tale of tweenage derring-do."" – The Guardian
A Guardian/Observer Best Book of the Year
Nominated for the Northern Ireland Book Award
A School Librarian Best Book by a Debut Author
Selected for the Summer Reading Challenge
Selected for Empathy Lab’s Read for Empathy Collection
Landfill has lived his whole life as a scavenger, running with wooflings, swimming with turtles and feasting on whatever he can catch.
Old Babagoo has always looked after him, on one condition. Follow Babagoo’s rules. And the most important rule of all is NEVER go beyond the wall. But Landfill longs to venture Outside. And some rules are made to be broken.
Darren Simpson’s exhilarating storytelling will make you think about the world differently in this urgent, compelling tale for our times.
Reviews
It was better than I thought, an amazing book.
Director Birthday-cake Pudding-Basin 12.09.2023
Got me wanting to explore the world and touched me to the core
ArhatJ 07.08.2023
I thought the book to be strangley fascinating, and fun. I really enjoyed this book.
Captain Daffodil Spaghetti-Hoops 03.08.2023
This was a great book, and it may surprise you!
Mademoiselle Esmerelda Shortbread 11.09.2021
Its a fictional book and my favourite character is landfill who is just like Mogly the jungle boy. So much familiar yet interesting
King Race-car Bonsai 24.08.2021
interesting
Anonymous 28.07.2021
It was a good book. It was a fiction.The character that I liked best was Landfill. I strongly recommend it to others.
Anonymous 09.11.2019
This book is filled with unexpected discoveries and twist. Many names used in this book left me in a confused and annoyed state. But when I realised that all these names belong to authors who the best of their times , it impressed me. Land fill lived his whole life as a scavenger and Babagoo has always been there to Gaurd him . Land fill longs to venture outside the walls and to discover things beyond Hinderland.
Anonymous 02.11.2019
The book is about a boy called Landfill who's lived his whole life as a scavenger. He was found as a baby and raised by an old man, Babagoo. The story follows Landfill as he makes a friend with an 'outsider'. Landfill is very unsure of this friendship as he has never experienced anything like it. Wow! What a massive emotional rollercoaster ride of a book. I think I pretty much cried for the last 2 chapters of the book. I think the last 4 chapters changed everything for me. There are so many twists and turns, and each one is brilliant. This is ridiculously well written book and I loved reading every minute of it. I found myself frustrated, sad, angry, happy and sometimes all within a short space of time. I think the character I most relate to is Dawn because she constantly wants to help Landfill, she's very caring and adventurous. It completely peaked my curiosity and I couldn't put it down. I'd reread it in a heart beat but I just need a minute to process everything before I dive back in! That ending, was beautiful and sad. The blurb does not do this book justice.
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