The whole question about the organization that Maya's parents work for that is hunting for element x (Ophalla) is never resolved, and they leave open the question of how the Grandmother knew stories about Tamarind.Īlso, if it's so difficult to get to or from the island (the storms that washed the parents overboard and the like), how is it that the island has cars, not to mention guns for the soldiers? After spending nearly 400 pages on the search for the parents, in only 50 pages the parents are found, the war is stopped, they get away from the island and go home to Bermuda. I enjoyed the book, but had some quibbles. Oh yeah, and mermaids, giants, and a mysterious glowing element x. With the help of Helix, a boy Maya's age who is rather savage, they face pirates, carnivorous vines, a jaguar-riding woman who steals children for her mines, and a war between the north and south that has ravaged island society, and a peaceful revolution trying to end the war. Maya, Simon and Penny go ashore to search for their missing parents. In a storm, their parents are washed overboard, the the ship comes across a mysterious island that appears on no maps, and which matches tales their father has told them over the years. Maya is the oldest of three children who live with their parents on the ship the Pamela Jane, but has reached the age where she desperately wants a normal life on shore, maybe living with her Grandmother in Bermuda.
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