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It's been four years since Maya, Simon, and Penny Nelson left the lost island of Tamarind. For Maya, the island is a nearly forgotten part of her childhood; for Penny, it's a secret place she can't remember, but longs to see; and for Simon, it's an adventure waiting to happen. An evil group called the Red Coral Project is lurking around the Nelson's home in Bermuda, and the children discover that the project has moved into Tamarind, and are desiccating it to ruin. Only the Nelson's can save the island.
In Tamarind, there is the mystery of the magical mineral ophalla that Red Coral is greedily mining, their old pirate ship, the Pamela Jane, and the secret of their friend Helix's parentage. This time, it is up to Simon to put the clues together, and save his sisters from the island and the nefarious Red Coral Project―and defeat Red Coral before the magnificent island is put to ruin.
Nadia Aguiar's sequel to The Lost Island of Tamarind, crafts a vivid story reminiscent of such classics as Peter Pan, full of adventure, magic, and haunting beauty.
- Sales Rank: #618101 in Books
- Brand: Feiwel & Friends
- Published on: 2011-07-05
- Released on: 2011-07-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.45" h x 1.33" w x 5.84" l, 1.07 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Review
“This is a great adventure that sets the stage for a third book in the series.” ―School Library Journal
“Simon Nelson and his sisters, Maya and Penny, have been living in Bermuda for four years, but they miss their life at sea and the adventures they shared with their parents in a land called Tamarind. Simon, especially, is restless. When a family friend from Tamarind, Helix, shows up with an urgent request to save Tamarind, Simon joins him--and brings his sisters along by mistake! While this is clearly the second in a series, Agular connects the back story deftly, so that new readers are quickly gathered into the magical land. … In his quest to save everyone, Simon discovers that he is growing up and that although adventure is sweet, family means more. … Rich descriptions and quirky characters will captivate fantasy genre fans.” ―Dawna Lisa Buchanan, Children's Literature
“After rescuing their marine-biologist parents from a mysterious island in The Lost Island of Tamarind (2008), feisty siblings Maya, Simon and Penny encounter more amazing adventures as they return to prevent Tamarind's destruction in this hair-raising sequel. … Replete with ecological warnings applicable to real as well as fantasy worlds and glossed with lush descriptions of imaginary flora and fauna, the rapid-fire plot bristles with danger. Like Simon, Maya and Penny, readers will find it hard to leave the magical world of Tamarind.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“The book's magic…lies in Aguiar's precise, often lyrical descriptions. A native and resident of Bermuda, she writes with authority about daily life in the tropics....Aguiar uses her knack for realistic details equally well in the magical parts…. The Lost Island of Tamarind has a gentle spirit, tempering its dangers with warmth.” ―The New York Times Book Review on The Lost Island of Tamarind
“Aguiar's exciting debut novel is a cross between Peter Pan and Lost...Developed with seeming ease, each new character advances the plot logically and fluidly. The storytelling, intricate as it is, builds to a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. All signs point to a sequel--one that readers won't want to miss.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review on The Lost Island of Tamarind
“Each detail of this fantasy is crafted with care; readers will be drawn into this dangerous, magical world where anything is possible and nothing can be fully explained...Young people will be transported to a world so different from the one they currently inhabit, following along as Maya and Simon escape their adversaries and struggle to survive in this hostile land.” ―School Library Journal on The Lost Island of Tamarind
“Stranded on a lost island, a teen faces nail-biting adventures searching for her missing parents in this fantasy cliffhanger…. As she bounces from one adventure to the next, Maya forgets all about having a normal life and longs just to have her family reunited. Spunky kids, perilous pursuits and marine mystery make for a smashing good read.” ―Kirkus Reviews on The Lost Island of Tamarind
About the Author
Nadia Aguiar's first novel, The Lost Island of Tamarind, was called "a smashing good read" by Kirkus Reviews. Nadia holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She lives with her husband in Bermuda, where she was born and raised.
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Chapter One
The Watchers • Granny Pearl’s House • The PAMELA JANE • A Gloomy Illumination • “It was unmistakable”
Simon’s school bag bounced on his back as he ran. When he reached the bend in the road he stopped and looked back. His sisters had gotten off the bus with him but they were lagging behind. With a running leap he vaulted onto the mossy boulder that sat on the verge of the road and climbed quickly to its top. From there he could see out to the choppy winter sea around Bermuda and hear the whistle of the wind. The slate gray sky was heavy with clouds and the day was already growing dark. He wished that Maya and Penny would hurry up. Recently their parents had forbidden them to walk home alone, so Simon had no choice but to wait, even though he was impatient to get to the boatyard. He and his friends had spent the past month rebuilding an old speedboat and it was almost ready to put in the water. It was all he had thought about all day as he endured the slow crawl of the hands around the big round clock at the front of the classroom.
Through the treetops Simon could see the crisp white limestone roof of Granny Pearl’s house. Even though they had lived there for nearly four years now—and it was the only real house any of them had ever lived in—they all still called it Granny Pearl’s house. If he stood on his tiptoes he could just see the kitchen garden with parsley, thyme and the frothy green tops of carrots, and lettuce that grew crisp and cool deep inside the ice green heads. Around the side of the house was a milkweed patch where flocks of monarch butterflies massed in the summer. The house overlooked a small green cove, sheltered from the open ocean, with a narrow slip of sandy beach and a mat of rubbery sea daisies. The family’s boat, the fifty-two-foot schooner, the Pamela Jane, rocked on her mooring, her yellow hull the brightest thing on this gloomy afternoon.
Something stirred in a nearby tree and Simon instantly thought of Helix, happier in trees than with his bare feet on the ground. But it was just a branch bobbing after a bird took flight. Their friend had disappeared so suddenly and had been gone for so many weeks now that Simon wondered if he was ever coming back.
Maya and Penny finally appeared—Penny hopping ponderously on one foot—and Simon slid down from the boulder and went to meet them.
“You should have waited for us,” Maya said crossly when they reached him. “What’d you need to go rushing off for?” Maya was sixteen, which meant she thought that she was in charge of Simon and Penny. Simon had just turned thirteen and he hated anyone telling him what to do, most of all Maya. Since nothing irritated her as much as being ignored, he didn’t answer and instead swung five-year-old Penny up onto his shoulders so fast that she squealed. He made up a silly song that made her giggle and began walking.
“Frog!” Penny shouted, catching sight of a muddy-backed bullfrog on the side of the road, and she wriggled until Simon put her back on the ground.
Maya dawdled with Penny, who was prodding the reluctant frog to hop in front of them, and Simon turned onto the shortcut, a narrow packed-sand path between the trees to Granny Pearl’s house. Old Man’s Beard hung like fog from gnarled branches. The light that managed to make it through the thick clusters of stubby palm trees and the heavy climbing creepers was dim and eerie. High in the spice trees, the wind creaked ominously, a sound that reminded Simon of the wind moaning in a ship’s rigging, but the air on the path was strangely still, as if it were sealed off from the rest of the day. He stopped to wait for his sisters and peered uneasily through the trees, trying to see if he could make out one of the watchers. The strange men were here all the time now.
He looked back. “Hurry up!” he shouted.
When he saw them, Maya’s scowl had fallen away and her face was lost in the hazy drift of a daydream—Maya was always daydreaming. The frog leaped into a clump of ferns and Simon, not liking the dark stretch of the path, took Penny’s hand and pulled her firmly along.
* * *
The house was cool when Simon came in, and the tiny television on the kitchen counter was spouting yet another news report about the mysterious glowing sea creatures that were being found dead in the waters all around the Caribbean and South America. Simon’s mother wasn’t home from the laboratory yet, but Granny Pearl was listening to the report as she chopped vegetables at the sink. Simon swooped down to give her a kiss—he had grown three inches in the past few months and he was doing a lot of swooping to low places, as well as stretching to high ones, reaching up nonchalantly to rap his knuckles on every door frame he went under.
“How was your day?” his grandmother asked
“Boring,” he said. “But yesterday I figured out what was wrong with the boat engine. The old fuel had thickened to varnish and the jets were clogged. I’m going to take the carbs apart and clean them—I think we can have it in the water by this weekend.” He glanced out of the window. “Are they still out there?”
His grandmother nodded. “They’ve been lurking around all afternoon.”
“They can’t just invade our yard,” he muttered. “Why doesn’t Papi get rid of them?”
“Sometimes things are more complicated than they seem,” said Granny Pearl.
Simon’s gaze fell on the television, where an old fisherman was holding up a dead octopus, its faint glow ebbing even as Simon watched. “Found it in my nets,” he said. “Second this month—I been fishing here since I was ten years old with my father, in fifty-five years I’ve never seen a thing like this before…”
The television still babbling tinnily, Simon went to change into his old grease-stained clothes for the boatyard, hearing the screen door bang shut as Maya came in behind him. Usually these days he breezed right by his father’s study, but today he stopped and looked in.
Dr. Nelson’s ear was pressed to the CB radio. With one hand he was turning the knob, listening to the series of pops and whines and static that sputtered from the speakers. With the other hand he was making notes. His beard, white since his time in the Ravaged Straits, had grown long and his skin, no longer exposed to the sun as they sailed from port to port, had faded. Frown lines deepened into grooves as he concentrated.
A year ago, the first thing Simon would have done when he got home from school would have been to head straight to Peter Nelson’s study. All of them would have, Helix, too, but Simon always stayed the longest, telling his father about his day and sitting at the desk opposite his father’s to do his homework. He’d browse through Papi’s books, poring over the scientific illustrations. He loved the treasures on the shelves: marlin bills; exotic shells; starfish and octopus and coiled water snakes that floated in a solution in rows of big glass jars. Simon had a steady hand, and his father often asked him to sketch things he saw under microscope slides. But these days his father was preoccupied, and he rarely talked to the children except to yell at them when they were too noisy.
“Papi,” said Simon. His father didn’t hear him.
Messy piles of coffee-stained papers teetered precariously under sea stones and open books were stacked on top of each other on almost every inch of the floor. Behind his father’s desk was a large map studded with colored drawing pins that plotted the locations of the reported sightings of dead, glowing sea life. Simon felt a sudden rush of annoyance at the shambles of his father’s office.
“Papi!” he said, loudly this time.
His father looked up, startled. “Simon,” he said. “Home already? What can I do for you?”
“I just saw that someone found another glowing sea creature,” said Simon. “Did you hear about it?”
“I did,” said his father, looking back down at his papers. “Very troubling business.”
“What do you think is making them glow like that?” Simon asked. He had been hovering in the doorway but now he stepped inside, dropping his school bag to the ground.
“Anything I could say now would only be speculation,” said his father. “And I’d rather not speculate.”
Simon frowned. He wished his father would stop being so infuriatingly vague. He looked out of the window. “You know those men are still out there,” he said.
“Yes, I’m aware,” said his father, sifting through the jumble on his desk in search of something.
“I could help, you know,” said Simon. “We could go outside right now and tell them to get lost!”
His father looked at him. “That would be very foolish,” he said seriously. “Those men are dangerous—it isn’t a game. Steer clear of them, Simon. I mean it.”
“What do they want?” Simon pressed.
When his father didn’t answer Simon changed the subject. “What about Helix?” he asked. “It’s been weeks—can’t you at least tell us where he’s gone, or when he’ll be coming back?”
Dr. Nelson sat back, rubbing a bony knuckle over his bushy eyebrow. “I wish I did know where Helix was,” he said. “I’m worried about him. He took it upon himself to— Oh, never mind. He thinks he’s helping us.”
“I want to help, too,” said Simon.
“You’re too...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children
By Yana V. Rodgers
Simon and his sisters had returned home four years ago after their adventures on the lost island of Tamarind. The experience had influenced them tremendously, and Simon especially had difficultly letting go of that longing to see Tamarind's people, wildlife, and natural beauty once again. That opportunity came quite unexpectedly, along with more dangerous exploits, when their friend Helix told them that Tamarind was in trouble and needed their help.
A greedy corporate group named the Red Coral -- who had been harassing their parents for sensitive information about Tamarind's secret natural barrier -- had reached Tamarind with an enormous steel ship loaded with ammunition. Once the children made their way back to Tamarind, they discovered that the Red Coral had begun extensive operations mining the island of its valuable ophalla, a mineral with magical properties that could bring the Red Coral large profits. How would a small band of children manage to stop this group from destroying Tamarind's main source of livelihood and existence?
Although this book comes as a sequel, the author explains enough of the key events and characters from the first installment that readers can wander seamlessly into this new magical journey. Motivating the entire plot is an economics lesson that revolves around the incentive to earn rents from natural resources. The book will appeal to middle grade readers who enjoy books heavy on fantasy and adventure.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
These two books are possibly my favourite books in the world BUT
By AM & RM McIntyre
These two books are possibly my favourite books in the world BUT, the second book in the Tamarind series was not as good as the first. *Spoiler Alert* (for anyone yet to read the book reading the reviews to get an insight on the book) At the end of the book when Helix left was simply outrageous. For one, he was the best character in the books (agree?). Two, the departure was so sudden and quick, he did not even say goodbye, only to Penny to whom he gave Seagrape to. I could hardly concentrate on the rest of the book after that moment!!
Simon seemed waaaay to mature and intelligent for a 12 year old, and putting the book in his point of view was a mistake because we'd learned and loved so much about Maya from the first book! :(
After finding out that they would be a older, I was extremely disappointed that nothing happened between Maya and Helix too...I'd hoped that something would go along there, but when I realised that the book was staying in Simon's POV I gave up on that thought.
I found myself rewriting or adding in parts along the way in my head as I read the book...!
Still my favourite books (I am 14)
Nadia Aguiar you better bring back Helix in the 3rd book, I don't care wether he's 17 or 70!!
Also heard that the third book would be in Penny's POV when she is a teenager (?)
Recommend it to people age 11-15 because some concepts and settings are too hard for anyone younger to grasp, and adults may find the story too cliche and even I smiled a bit at the convenience of things seeming to suddenly appear out of nowhere!
Great story for anyone who likes adventure stories!
Mad fan, hoping to see some more novels from Nadia!!
:)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Why I give this book five stars
By Karin
I'm writing this review from the viewpoint of my three kids, who all give it five stars, even my reluctant reader. I've read it as well, although I might rate it a bit less personally, I think that it is much better written than a lot of books out there right now. They like the plot, the characters and the action. We bought this from Amazon, but initially read the first one from the library.
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