The Lost Island of Tamarind by Nadia Aguiar

Author:Nadia Aguiar
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-312-38029-8
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

It wasn’t until they were safely up in the heights of the night sky, above the rain clouds, that Maya felt a sense of relief. She let the others put their heads up, and she looked out herself, gasping when she saw how high they were and she had to close her eyes until the dizziness passed. Then she looked down again.

The clouds broke and, from high above, in the moonlight they could see the ark floating down the river in the fast current, all the children on the deck jumping up and down and cheering and waving to them. Maya and Simon waved back furiously. On either side of the swollen river they saw Evondra’s monkeys in the highest branches of trees, clinging on for dear life. That made them cheer louder. They caught sight of Evondra, fighting for space with a monkey on a skinny branch that bent precariously toward the rushing water. Then the water rose or the branch tipped too low, and she was suddenly in the violent river on her back, long black hair spread for a moment over the surface of the water as she spun in the current. Then the current pulled her under suddenly and she disappeared from sight. From the air, Maya and Simon could hear a new cheer go up from the ark. They sat there grinning at each other and then the plane began to climb more steeply and they left the boat behind. The children celebrating on the deck became as tiny as dots before a bend in the river concealed them completely from Maya and Simon’s view.

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