Michael Morpurgo

Christian Birmingham

In 1907, fourteen-year-old Laura, living with her family on one of the stormy Isles of Scilly, records in her diary how her dream of participating in a shipwreck rescue is finally realized.

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

Ruth Muscat

Lilian Housley

Tess 

Imzy

A gripping children’s story from Britain’s best-loved children’s author and the man behind War Horse, Michael 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 . . . Former Children’s Laureate and award-winning author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, again demonstrates why he is considered to be the master story teller with one of his most dramatic children’s stories . . . The Wreck of the Zanzibar.

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

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