City of the Beasts
A teenager joins his fearless grandmother on an Amazon expedition in search of a legendary creature, in Isabel Allende's first young adult novel.
Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold joins his headstrong grandmother on an expedition into the Amazon rainforest to find a mysterious humanoid creature known as the Beast. Along the way he encounters ancient wonders and a supernatural world, and tries to prevent a disaster for the Indigenous people who live there. Published in 2002, it was Isabel Allende’s first novel for young adults.
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