Rare and Endangered - Softcover
In this sequel to Hogsty Reef, teenagers Jim and Julia reunite, getting embroiled in a search for a missing naturalist as they work in a research station studying endangered wildlife.
While in the Turks and Caicos Islands, these two inquisitive teens’ quest leads them directly into the hands of poachers who have ravaged the island’s precious fauna and intend to sell them in the black market of endangered and threatened animals.
Jim, Julia, and their new friend Miles get capture with the animals and smuggled to the Dominican Republic just as a hurricane blows in. How will they escape their captors and the deadly storm? Will they be able to stop the poaching operation?
With one eye on a twisting and turning plot line and the other on a message concerning the importance of conservation and ecological balance, John Dowd will teach and delight readers.
While in the Turks and Caicos Islands, these two inquisitive teens’ quest leads them directly into the hands of poachers who have ravaged the island’s precious fauna and intend to sell them in the black market of endangered and threatened animals.
Jim, Julia, and their new friend Miles get capture with the animals and smuggled to the Dominican Republic just as a hurricane blows in. How will they escape their captors and the deadly storm? Will they be able to stop the poaching operation?
With one eye on a twisting and turning plot line and the other on a message concerning the importance of conservation and ecological balance, John Dowd will teach and delight readers.
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About the Author:
John Dowd is a true adventurer, as well as a writer and photojournalist. He has worked as a seaman on a Danish freighter out of Libya; taught at New Zealand’s Anakiwa Outward Bound School; paddled from Punta Arenas to Puerto Montt in Chile on assignment for National Geographic; and established himself in the Guinness Book of World Records by leading a 3600 kilometer kayak expedition from Venezuela to Miami along the Caribbean island chain. He is the author of Hogsty Reef and Rare and Endangered. He lives in Canada.
From School Library Journal:
Grade 6-8-In this sequel to Hogsty Reef (Peachtree, 1999), Jim and Julia return to the marine research station in the Turks and Caicos Islands where they'd spent the previous summer. There, they join one of the researchers on a turtle-tagging expedition with a side visit to Miles, who is working on a flamingo research project. On their way back, they encounter poachers, causing them to worry about Miles's safety. They go back to check on him and find that he has disappeared. While searching for him, the teens are captured by the poachers, who are trafficking in black-market wild animals. There are a few oblique references to the previous title, but basically this enjoyable story stands on its own. While the characters aren't fully developed, they are interesting and believable enough to keep readers turning pages to the satisfying conclusion. The conservation message is sometimes heavy-handed, but the author's obvious respect for his subject offsets the preachiness to some degree. Nature enthusiasts will enjoy the setting, but the real focus here is on the action-packed adventure.
Arwen Marshall, formerly at New York Public Library
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Arwen Marshall, formerly at New York Public Library
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPeachtree Publishing Company
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1561452173
- ISBN 13 9781561452170
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages169
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