In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometime
s feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled childre
n, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talki
ng pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone crazy. But the
animals have something to say. And they need him. The pigeons fly Kester to a w
ild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs
Kester's help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along th
e way by an overenthusiastic wolf cub, a military-trained cockroach, a mouse wit
h a ritual for everything, and a stubborn girl named Polly. The animals saved Ke
ster Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?
