City of the Beasts
By: Isabel Allende
Series: Charnwood library series
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781843951339
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Fiction; Rain forests; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Large type books
Description: With his mother in hospital, fifteen-year-old Alex Cold is sent to his fierce, wonderful grandmother, Kate - a pipe-smoking, vodka-drinking old reporter with blue eyes "as sharp as daggers' points". Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team - including a local guide and his daughter, Nadia - in search of a fabled headhunting tribe and a legendary, marauding creature known to locals as 'the Beast', only to find out much, much more about the mysteries of the jungle and its inhabitants.
Notes: Originally published: London : Flamingo, 2002.