01174nam a22001457a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003100062040001100093100002200104245003800126260004800164300002400212520079200236OSt20260922160129.0260922b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781481419468c(paperback)  c123456  aKatherine Rundell  aThe Explorer /cKatherine Rundell  aNew York :bSimon & Schuster Books ;c2017.  a352 pages :c13 cm.  aWhen a small plane bound for England from Manaus, Brazil, crashes in the Amazon rainforest, its four young passengers are stranded. Fred welcomes the opportunity to prove himself capable of surviving, like the explorers he admires, but his companions Constantia and Lila are terrified—and Lila’s five-year-old brother, Max, is especially vulnerable to the dangers around them.

The small group works together out of necessity, but it’s far from easy as they encounter predators like piranhas and fight hunger by foraging for edible fruits and even bugs. But when Fred finds an old map, he and his companions have a direction at last—and renewed hope. On a handmade raft, they follow a river to the destination marked on the map…and find more than they could have ever imagined.