![]() ![]() All signs point to a sequel one that readers won't want to miss. ![]() The storytelling, intricate as it is, builds to a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Developed with seeming ease, each new character advances the plot logically and fluidly. ![]() When pirates kidnap Simon and Penny, Maya must race to find her parents and rescue her siblings. After a terrible storm blows their parents overboard the Pamela Jane. Maya never imagined shed have to face so many dangers. In The Lost Island of Tamarind, Nadia Aguiar takes Maya, Simon and Penny on an adventure that they will never forget. Welcome to Tamarind, where fish can fly, pirates patrol the waters, jaguars lurk, the islanders are at war, and an evil, child-stealing enchantress rules the jungle. As Maya and Simon hike through dense jungle, tending to Penny, they meet dynamic characters including the orphan Helix, a jaguar-riding child stealer and a girl who looks uncannily like Maya. The children manage to steer the boat toward a mysterious island, to a place that doesnt exist on a map. Ruled by pirates and devastated by civil war, the island poses one peril after another. After a sudden storm, Maya's parents fall overboard and Maya desperately sails the boat, landing on Tamarind, an island that has been the setting for ongoing stories told by her father and that has been cut off from the outside world. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Maya Nelson is sick of living at sea on the Pamela Jane with her brother, Simon, and baby sister, Penny, while her parents conduct research. Aguiar's exciting debut novel is a cross between Peter Pan and Lost. ![]()
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