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.

Related: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latin America, United States

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• ISBN: 9780060886981
• Author: Nelson, N. A.
• Published: 2008, HarperCollins
• Themes: Animals, Forests, training, visiting, Young adult
• Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latin America, United States
• No. of pages: 224