The Lastling Author:Philip Gross Fourteen-year-old Paris is thrilled when her rich, influential uncle Franklin decides to take her on a trip to the Himalayas. She hopes this will be her chance to prove just how mature and worthy of his company she is. — But this will be no pleasure trip. Franklin and his friends are searching for rare and endangered species, and they travel deep... more » into the war-ravaged forest to find them. There they come across Tahr, a twelve-year-old monk who has just seen a shocking vision?the face of a creature known before only in legends . . . and one that Franklin is determined to capture alive.
Set in an exotic land wracked by violence, cruelty, and a threatened ecosystem, this edgy and strikingly original novel offers a riveting look at morality and the harshness of nature?both human and otherwise.« less