Forest of the Pygmies

by Isabel Allende

Book Overview

Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060761962
• ISBN13: 9780060761967
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Rayo
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Love it!, me encanto! :)

Muy buena manera de narrar la historia, algo caracteristico de Isabell Allende, y es miuy interezante, nunca te aburriras de la historia :)

Great book!

This is a wonderful book, I read it and now I bought it for a teenager that loves to read. Isabel Allende is one of the best Latin american writers

Great Book!

I really enjoyed this book. It is written for adolescents but I am 24 and reading it for grad school for a literature for adolescents class. There are two that come before that I am going to read also.

Absolutely great characters who achieve hero status

Isabel Allende CAN WRITE. This series of three tales in the lives of two young heroes who travel to three exotic lands. Should keep most teenagers reading for the pure enjoyment of watching the young American boy and the young South American girl come of age through challenges that test their hearts and minds. Always there is one foot in the physical world, and the other in the metaphysical world. Allende presents these two states of being as one in the same in the world of these three stories. Not hokey, not Magic-on-demand, but a widening of awareness for the reader.

a really great book, though maybe not as good as the ones before it

I really liked this book, although it was a bit slow at the start, and i didn't think it was quite as good as the two books before it. I love the Alex and Nadia trilogy, there's a twist at the end of each excellent book and i always finish each book wanting to hear more from Alex and Nadia. Isabel Allende is, i think, a fantastic children's author. I think in this book Alex and Nadia didn't really seem to use their totemic powers, and i wish they had, because for me, that was what separated this trilogy from the other children's books. I guess i was a little bit disapointed, as i was expecting more from isabelle allende, but this book is still one of the best i have ever read.