The Protectors' Pledge: Secrets of Oscuros

ISBN-13: 9780997890075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 180 str.

Danielle y. C. McClean

Opis

Award winning title: Third place in the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean LiteratureA fast-paced adventure set deep in a Caribbean forest with a hero who must risk everything to save the forest and his village.Twelve-year-old JV can't wait to spend his vacation exploring the Oscuros Forest. True, everyone in the village of Alcavere believes the Oscuros Forest is a place to be feared, inhabited by dangerous and magical beings. But JV is not afraid, even when his first trip into the forest brings him face-to-face with a mysterious creature.Then the disappearance of one of their own shakes the village and JV joins the search. He finds himself deep in the Oscuros Forest on a rescue mission and committed to a promise, a promise which the Protectors of the forest insist he keeps no matter how dangerous things get.Can JV complete his daring quest even as he uncovers in the process, a shocking secret that will force him to question everything he thought he knew?