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• Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee (1975)
• Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1973)
• Audie Award Nominee for Best Male Narrator (2020)
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (1975)
• California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult (1977)
• Carnegie Medal (1972)

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0380002930 here.Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.

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