October 2010

Author/s: Philip Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press UK
Reviewed by: Shelby Thompson, age 15
ISBN 13: 9780192753830

Paris is going on an adventure with her Uncle Franklin to a film shoot. Tahr is a boy monk, learning all sorts of weird and wonderful things from Shengo an older, more experienced monk. When terror strikes, Tahr starts running, and bumps into a camp, which happens to be where Paris and her crew are shooting the film…

Two very different backgrounds, with only one thing in common, they had both lost someone very important to them. The two of them build an incredible friendship, so much so, that Tahr lets something slip - something that, if in the wrong hands, can be a very big problem. When their friendship hits a bump, Paris tells the secret, which only makes things worse.

Join the two friends on an incredible journey, with very trying times, and a lot of disappointment.

A very unusual read, I think it was written for an older reader.

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