Have your students experience Costa Rican culture while also exploring the themes of indigenous culture and dying languages. Malcolm is going on a trip to Costa Rica with his high school biology class to learn about the country and explore one of their Rain Forests. While in Costa Rica he goes on a fantastical, unique journey with the Boruca tribe in this Magic Realism style novel. This novel is written for students at an Intermediate Mid-High level. It contains 3717 words with 448 unique words (including different verb forms) and cognates. If you are a teacher interested in this book for a class unit, there are class activities and games on TpT.