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By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pushkin Children's Books, 2023Description: 251 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781782693840
  • 178269384X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Ever since Jack's dad died, he's had a heavy feeling inside. The pressure keeps building. Looking for release, he starts skiving school and hanging around with a group who like to cause trouble. It's easy to hide his new habits from his mum, an environmental anthropologist, because she's too busy with work and conservation trips to notice. As Jack spins further out of control, his mum eventually becomes concerned - and shocks him by suggesting a trip together. But this will be no relaxing holiday. Soon Jack finds himself on an expedition deep into the rainforest, far from anything he's ever known. He wanted an adventure - but has he plunged into real danger?"--Amazon.ca.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Fiction New FOUNTAIN ELE Available 33111011104763
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction New FOUNTAIN ELE Checked out 06/01/2024 33111011222698
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A moving, page-turning novel about a family's grief and the crisis afflicting the rainforest, from the prize-winning author of Fake and Boy 87 .

"Ever since Jack's dad died, he's had a heavy feeling inside. The pressure keeps building. Looking for release, he starts skiving school and hanging around with a group who like to cause trouble. It's easy to hide his new habits from his mum, an environmental anthropologist, because she's too busy with work and conservation trips to notice. As Jack spins further out of control, his mum eventually becomes concerned - and shocks him by suggesting a trip together. But this will be no relaxing holiday. Soon Jack finds himself on an expedition deep into the rainforest, far from anything he's ever known. He wanted an adventure - but has he plunged into real danger?"--Amazon.ca.

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