Young Zorro: The Iron Brand - Softcover

Diego Vega

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007221673 ISBN 13: 9780007221677

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2005

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A swashbuckling adventure story, based on the character in Isabel Allendes novel, ZORRO, but imagining his childhood adventures.When cattle start to go missing from the de la Vegas ranch, and skilled workmen disappear from the local villages, it is clear that something mysterious is going on. But Diego (the young Zorro) and his brother Bernardo are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and soon become embroiled in an exciting and dangerous conspiracy.An exciting action-adventure story about the childhood of Zorro and his sidekick Bernardo. This novel is based on the character in Isabel Allendes novel ZORRO in which she imagines Zorros childhood. Zorro is an imaginary character who was invented at the beginning of the twentieth century half Hispanic and half Native American and the book is set in Southern California in the late nineteenth century.The author Jan Adkins helped Isabel Allende with the research for her novel, which was published in the UK in May 2005. Allendes name will appear on the jacket.

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From the Author:

I loved writing this adventure, and the next story in the series. A third appears in Moonstone's anthology Tales of Zorro, edited by Richard Dean Starr. I loved my characters. Young de la Vega, of course, and his mute brother Bernardo. But also their feisty girl compadre, Trinity. I helped Isabel Allende on her Zorro novel, and used Isabel's portrait of Diego Vega's mother, a mercurial firebrand and Gabriele�o war leader. I expanded the character of Diego's father from her sketch, emphasizing the cool and steady Royal Spanish officer in him. I hope you enjoy the adventures, and the portrait of old California.

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How did El Zorro become the hero of Old California? By growing into the sword-and-swashbuckling life from youth! This is the first tale of young Diego del Vega and his mute brother Bernardo on Don Alejandro del Vega's vast cattle lands. They visit grandmother Gray Owl's Gabriele�o Native American village in the mountains, and explore the choppy waters off the coast with their feisty girl compadre, Trinity. They encounter marauding grizzly bears, rustlers, real pirates and sinister Spaniards. The adventures are thrilling but only a little more thrilling than this paradise for two boys: the glorious California country around the tiny mission town of Pueblo de los Angeles.

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