Allende, Isabel.

City of the beasts / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - 1st ed. - [New York] : HarperCollins Publishers, c2002. - 406 p. ; 20 cm.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Maine Student Book Award list, 2003-2004.

ISBN: 006050918X 0060535032 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2002022338

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Supernatural--Fiction.
Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Amazon River Valley--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.A43912 / Ci 2002

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]