Theme: Amazon Jungle

Bringing the Boy Home

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

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.

Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latin America, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Go and Come Back

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In this multi-award-winning novel, two female American anthropologists come to stay in a jungle village near the Amazon. The villagers are initially skeptical, especially teenaged Alicia. But as the months go on, Alicia finds herself drawn in, even becoming friends with one of the women.

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