Pictures and text catapult readers into the experience of loss when a river swells higher than anyone could have imagined and floods a town. Kurtz (I’m Sorry, Almira Ann, 1999, etc.) turns personal disaster into a universally affecting book about the 1997 flooding of the Red River in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Blackwood? Enjoyably rollicking adventures are appropriately cheesy the stereotypes, though equally fitting, are a bit much. And what is the deep, dark secret that has given Grace nightmares all her life-and what does it have to do with Dr. Luckily there are friendly Pygmies to help. There the children must reunite with their uncle, find the mythic dinosaur Mokèlè-mbembè, and avoid the minions of evil Dr. Though he doesn’t intend to bring the children on his dinosaur hunt in the Congo, they arrive anyway, after falling from his airplane into the darkest jungle, accompanied only by a teacup poodle, a chimpanzee named Bo, and a high-end Gizmo complete with videoconferencing. Wolfe hunts cryptids: mythical creatures such as Yetis, Kraken, and Chupacabras.
When the twins’ explorer parents vanish in the Amazon (to be found in the next book?), mischief-maker Marty and genius scaredy-cat Grace go to live on Uncle Wolfe’s private island. With this book constantly keeping you interested, I'm going to go with 4/5 stars for Cryptid Hunters.When Uncle Wolfe takes them on a dinosaur hunt, orphaned twins Grace and Marty find themselves in a B-movie with email. To escape this inferior situation, the twins decide to go to a forest on one of their uncle’s helicopters, and skydive into the trees in hope to find their missing parents, and to have an adventure of a lifetime. Following this event, Marty and Grace get involved in the conflict between the two which discloses some complicated family backstory. Cryptid hunters or cryptozoologists are people who find animals thought to be extinct, to never exist, or to be mythological.Īnother cryptid hunter, and nemesis of Uncle Travis Wolfe, Noah Blackwood tries to steal a so-called “dinosaur egg” from Uncle. Their uncle lives on a private island that he owns, searching for cryptids, and he even founded the famous company eWolfe. Now, without a home, the twins are suddenly thrust into the care of their uncle they had never even met.
With this decision, Marty is very happy, while Grace isn't. Their photojournalist parents left for work in the Amazon Rainforest on a project regarding nature, but they were killed in a terrible airplane accident.Īfter a couple of months pass without any trace of their parents, the twins are pulled out of school, because no one can pay for their schooling anymore. This book is about twins Marty and Grace O’Hara.
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