Armando and the Amazing Animal Race - Couverture souple

Schaffter, Diana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1069079510 ISBN 13 : 9781069079510

Editeur : Sea Otter Press, 2025

Synopsis

A Globe-Trotting Wildlife Eco-Adventure Mystery

The Amazing Animal Race is starting again—the race Armando's mother disappeared on.
Now . . . it's Armando's turn.

• Can he finish his mother’s journey—and uncover what really happened?
• Can Armando help protect endangered animals and save the Amazon rainforest?

Armando was only four when his mother joined The Amazing Animal Race, a continent-hopping dash to photograph seven endangered animals in just seventy days. But she never came home. And his father never wants to talk about it.

Eight years later, 12-year-old Armando enters the very same competition. His father thinks he's safe at his grandmother's house—but Armando has secretly joined the race with his wacky granny!

• His mission: to complete the race his mother never finished.
• His challenge: to keep his dad from finding out.

Armed with night vision goggles, bear spray, and help from his tech-savvy friend Jinny, Armando follows his mother's trail from the icy Arctic to the steamy Amazon rainforest. Using her old race journal, he searches for the endangered animals she worked to save—including polar bears, desert leopards, and a four-toed jerboa.

But he'll have to outsmart ruthless poachers, uncover a corrupt sponsor's secrets, and beat fierce rivals if he hopes to solve this family mystery and protect the animals his mother loved.

A page-turning middle-grade adventure filled with wild animals, laugh-out-loud moments, unforgettable characters, and a heartwarming family connection. Delivering action-packed wildlife conservation for kids, Armando and the Amazing Animal Race is ideal for animal lovers ages 8–12. Great for family and classroom read-alouds.

Bonus content includes:

• 3 full-page maps
• 58 realistic illustrations
• Cool animal facts
• A discussion guide

This engaging story will keep children––and maybe even their parents and grandparents––up well past their usual bedtime.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Diana is no stranger to adventure. She is fluent in Thai, has traveled to over fifty countries, raised her two sons overseas, and lived in seven countries in Asia and Eastern Europe for forty-two years, including two years in Pyongyang, North Korea, where her husband was the head of the UNICEF office. Diana has worked with Cambodian refugees, taught in international schools, opened schools in Thailand and Vietnam, and has been an educational consultant to non-governmental organizations and the Ministry of Education in Laos. In researching her story, she followed in the footsteps of her main character, Armando, traveling to Southern India to search for wild cobras with the Irula tribe, to Vladivostok, Russia, to see a Siberian tiger with a local conservationist, to the home of the elusive desert leopard in the Judean desert in Israel; and into the thick Brazilian Amazon rainforest to visit an Indigenous tribe and to photograph a pied tamarin monkey. Wherever she has lived, Diana has witnessed the power of human resilience, cooperation, and caring, which inspires her writing. Diana and her co-adventurer husband, Tim, now live in Sidney, BC, Canada, where she continues to write, give talks in schools and communities, and work with young people.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sea Otter Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1069079510
• ISBN 13: 9781069079510
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg