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Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin (view source)
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In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Maya has to escape. She's is on the run in a country she doesn't know after her father is kidnapped. Alone and has no idea unsure who to trust, she forges ahead. Raul is escaping too - travelling back returning to his home where old village, the scene of an atrocity when he was a terrible tragedy happenedchild, ready to stir up troublewith vengeance on his mind. When their paths collide in the middle two run head-long into each other, so begins a tale of the jungle, how the old and the sparks begin to fly. As spiritual meets modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient timesgreed, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find and the way through children's quest to bring the truth?to light.
The first of these is Maya, a Glasgow native who is in Peru with her father, a scientist with some rather weird beliefs, who ends up on the run after her father is seemingly kidnapped. She has the dual gifts of a photographic memory and the ability to command little balls of fire (hence, 'Fire Girl'). Then we have Raul, a Peruvian native travelling back to his old village in the heart of the Peruvian rainforest. They provide a rather nice contrast to each other – where Maya is quite cold and distrustful (though, given what she's gone through this is hardly unjustified), Raul is very friendly and open. They are aided by Matias, Raul's blood-brother who lives in a treehouse out in the rainforest.
[[Fish Boy by Chloe Daykin|Fish Boy]] – Chloe Daykin's debut novel, with a similar theme of communing with nature despite troubled times.
[[The Last Wild by Piers TorsdayTorday]] – a slightly more apocalyptic tale of nature under threat and a young child's quest to stop it. [[The Boy Who Hit Play by Chloe Daykin|The Boy Who Hit Play]] another book by Chloe Daykin.
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