Originally published in the United Kingdom by Usborne Publishing Ltd in 2017.

Includes afterword about the history of St. Kilda, list of the birds of St. Kilda, and glossary.

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.

Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2020.