Lost on Gibbon Island

The Last Bear meets The Life of Pi in this beautifully-written survival story set on a Cambodian island, following a ship-wrecked girl named Lark, and a baby gibbon who becomes her companion. Together, they must evade poachers and find their way home.

‘If you’re reading this, hopefully you’ve come to rescue me. My name is Lark Taylor, and I’ve been shipwrecked on an island. The last mainland I was on was Cambodia, miles and miles away from home…’

When Lark’s mum takes her family with her on a research trip to Cambodia, Lark never expects that she’ll end up stranded on a deserted island, with no one but a baby gibbon for company. But that’s exactly what happens.

Lost and with no idea how to survive in the jungle, Lark must learn the ways of the wild from the gibbon.

And in return, try to help the gibbon find her way home …

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LOST ON GIBBON ISLAND has won the Oxfordshire Book Awards’ Best Junior Book Award and the Shropshire Bookfest Big Book Award.

It has been shortlisted for the Hull James Reckitt Book Award, the Sheffield Book Award, the Portsmouth Book Award and the Inspiread Book Awards.

It was also chosen for Booktrust’s BookBuzz.