'Don't stray into the Quartermile Field. Any animal with sense avoids the spot,' warns Sammy's mother. But Sammy is curious - about the Field, and about his father, the fierce, wild father he's never met. Then one day Sammy discovers that his father has returned. And determined to track him down, Sammy sets off towards the strange, wild land of Quatermile Field - and into a very different and dangerous world . . .

 

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Cornerstone .

Colin Dann won the Arts Council National Award for Children's Literature for his first novel, The Animals of Farthing Wood.