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list price: $16.95
edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook Paperback
category: Young Adult Fiction
published: Mar 2011
ISBN:9781554694204
publisher: Orca Book Publishers

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by Robin Stevenson

tagged: survival stories, general (see also headings under social themes), australia & oceania
Description

Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school-and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Once he arrives, he discovers Mel is obsessed with finding a new species of lizard and is determined to be the first to discover it. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback...with the increasingly paranoid Mel and an unfriendly biology student named Natalie. Then disaster strikes, and Jayden and Nat find themselves many miles from civilization fighting for their survival.

About the Author

Robin Stevenson is the author of more than thirty books for kids and teens, including Pride Puppy!, Pride Colors and Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change. The first edition of her nonfiction book Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community (2016) won a Stonewall Honor and was shortlisted for numerous other awards. In 2023, she was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in British Columbia. Robin lives in Victoria.

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
12 to 18
Grade:
8 to 12
Reading age:
12 to 18

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