Shadowshine: An Animal Adventure

Shadowshine: An Animal Adventure

by Johnny Armstrong
Shadowshine: An Animal Adventure

Shadowshine: An Animal Adventure

by Johnny Armstrong

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Overview

On a quest to rescue his community from a fiery demise, possum and poet Zak, seeks assistance from rodents in the North and sets out on a journey into an ancient forest. But separated from his own surroundings and his bob-cat companion, Sena, he quickly loses his sense of direction and becomes hopelessly lost in the wilderness. Here, Zak enters a world of self-discovery as he struggles to survive starvation, predation, drowning, illness and ice. Meanwhile, his forest-folk comrades he left behind suffer the menace of drought, wildfire and the malicious deeds of Mungo, an indomitable villain actively ravaging precious ecosystems. As Zak's feathered and furry friends await such an uncertain future, they formulate the theory that Mungo and the others of his species have lost cognizance of what they are, causing them to become “familiar” and bring havoc upon the forest — all, because they were never taught to use their noses as a reference. But unbeknownst to everyone, the havoc originates inside a dark world whose terrifying resident has, itself, become familiar; and Zak will play a key role in events that ultimately end in a savage showdown.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771834605
Publisher: Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/01/2019
Series: World Young Readers , #22
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Conservationist and retired medical doctor (pathology), Johnny Armstrong and his wife Karen and Opal (k-nine) live within a Nature Conservancy protected old-growth forest and woodland near Ruston, Louisiana. Shadowshine is his first novel.

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And as they marched along, they all lapped up the gift of the scenery of forest life, its breathing botanical and zoological inhabitants of snail and moss and squirrel and shrub and snake and tree and turtle and fern and beetle and the many, many others; and they took the great pleasure of greeting these fellow passengers who lived at the same time that they lived, and rode in the same bubbly froth on the crest of Sark's great wave of life.”

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