Bringing the boy home
By: N.A. Nelson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780060886981; 9780060886998
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction.; Senses and sensation -- Fiction.; Extrasensory perception -- Fiction.; Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Fiction.; Mothers and sons -- Fiction.; Rain forests -- Fiction.; Amazon River Region -- Fiction.; Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: As two Takunami youths approach their thirteenth birthdays, Luka reaches the culmination of his mother's training for the tribe's manhood test while Tirio, raised in Miami, Florida, by his adoptive mother, feels called to begin preparations to prove himself during his upcoming visit to the Amazon rain forest where he was born.