| Contents |
Crossing over -- King Gannet -- Two months earlier on Hirta -- A lateness -- Doubts and fears -- Confessions -- Miracles -- Outcast -- The keepers -- A welcome return -- King Saul's trews -- The crossing -- Words and silence -- Haunted -- Light -- Storm -- Rite -- Spring fever -- Monsters -- Witch hunt -- The white ship -- Music and love. |
| Abstract |
In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them. |
| General note | Originally published in the United Kingdom by Usborne Publishing Ltd in 2017. |
| General note | Includes afterword about the history of St. Kilda, list of the birds of St. Kilda, and glossary. |
| Audience |
900 Lexile |
| Awards note | Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2020. |
| Genre/form | Hunting fiction. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| LCCN | 2019019749 |
| ISBN | 9781250225498 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1250225493 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
