| ISBN |
9781781129463 (paperback) |
| Name |
Cole, Stephen, 1971- author. |
| Title |
World burn down : [Dyslexic Friendly Edition] / Steve Cole ; with illustrations by Oriol Vidal. |
| Edition |
Dyslexic friendly edition. |
| Published |
Edinburgh : Barrington Stoke Ltd, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Description |
115 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Printed on yellow pages with dyslexia-friendly font. |
| Set in 12 pt. Dyslexie. |
| Summary |
Carlos's mother works for IBAMA, Brazil's Environmental Authority. As head of a specially trained task force, her role is to protect the Amazon from the farmers, loggers and miners who are illegally destroying the precious rainforest. It's a dangerous role and when she upsets some of these land grabbers, they decide to teach her a lesson by kidnapping her son, Carlos. Taken deep into the Amazon, Carlos manages to escape his captors only to find himself trapped by the fast-moving fires. Will he be able to outrun the flames as the world around him burns down? |
| Target audience note |
9-11 years old. |
| Subjects |
Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis -- Juvenile fiction |
| Kidnapping -- Juvenile fiction |
| Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction |
| Wildfires -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile fiction |
| Forest fires -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile fiction |
| Jungle survival -- Juvenile fiction |
| Survival -- Juvenile fiction |
| Friendship -- Juvenile fiction |
| Forest conservation -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile fiction |
| Deforestation -- Control -- Amazon River Region -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| Amazon River Region -- Juvenile fiction |
| Genre |
High interest-low vocabulary books |
| Action and adventure stories |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Dyslexic friendly books |
| Other Names |
Vidal, Oriol, 1977- illustrator. |
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