![]() ![]() Developed with seeming ease, each new character advances the plot logically and fluidly. When pirates kidnap Simon and Penny, Maya must race to find her parents and rescue her siblings. As Maya and Simon hike through dense jungle, tending to Penny, they meet dynamic characters including the orphan Helix, a jaguar-riding child stealer and a girl who looks uncannily like Maya. Ruled by pirates and devastated by civil war, the island poses one peril after another. After a sudden storm, Maya’s parents fall overboard and Maya desperately sails the boat, landing on Tamarind, an island that has been the setting for ongoing stories told by her father and that has been cut off from the outside world. ![]() With her brother, Simon, and baby sister, Penny, while her parents conduct research. Thirteen-year-old Maya Nelson is sick of living at sea on the Pamela Jane Aguiar’s exciting debut novel is a cross between Peter Pan ![]()
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