She offers him pot and steals his backpack that contained his clothes, his money and his flute.
In the process he meets a girl named Morgana, a homeless girl in her mid-20s. Once Alex arrives in New York City, and finds out that his grandmother had no intentions of collecting him at the airport he is forced to find his own way to her apartment. Meanwhile, Kate announces that she will be taking Alex with her to the Amazon rainforest during his visit. His sisters, however are sent to live with their other grandmother. Despite his desperate pleading, Alex is sent off to New York City to stay with his eccentric grandmother Kate Cold, a reporter for International Geographic Magazine. While his parents leave for Texas to try to treat his mother's cancer, Alex and his sisters are sent to live with their grandmothers. Walden Media acquired the novel's movie rights in 2006 but no film has yet been produced.Ĭity of the Beasts begins with the story of Alexander Cold, who is 15 years old and going through a family crisis.
The novel was translated by Margaret Sayers Peden from Spanish to English. Published in 2002, the story is set in the Amazon rainforest. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia’s spirit guide, the two young people are led by the People of the Mist-an indigenous people so in tune with their surroundings that they can literally disappear-on a thrilling and unforgettable journey into the wonder-filled heart of the Amazon.City of the Beasts ( Spanish: La ciudad de las bestias) is the first young adult novel by Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest-and about human nature. Their mission, along with the others on their team-including a celebrated anthropologist a local guide and his young daughter, Nadia and a doctor-is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. When his mother becomes ill, fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is sent away to join his fearless and tough-minded grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. The first in a three-part series for young adults ( Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies follow), City of the Beasts features high adventure and magical realism.
Int'l Women's Conference - México, 2013.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony, 2017.
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