Ten-year-old Nate is sent to live with a family cousin, the world's last beastologist, after his parents are declared lost at sea, but danger mounts when he is brought on an expedition to the Arabian desert, gets lost, and must protect a newly hatched phoenix egg and rescue his guardian.
year: 2009, 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: animals, mythical, juvenile fiction, orphans, phoenix (mythical bird), cousins, bedouins, middle east, juvenile fiction, fiction, fiction, mythical animals, adventure fiction
Editions
La Fevers, R. L
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2009)
Ten-year-old Nate is sent to live with a family cousin, the world's last beastologist, after his parents are declared lost at sea, but danger mounts when he is brought on an expedition to the Arabian desert, gets lost, and must protect a newly hatched phoenix egg and rescue his guardian.
Schools: 18
La Fevers, R. L
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2010)
Ten-year-old Nate is sent to live with a family cousin, the world's last beastologist, after his parents are declared lost at sea, but danger mounts when he is brought on an expedition to the Arabian desert, gets lost, and must protect a newly hatched phoenix egg and rescue his guardian.
Schools: 2
La Fevers, R. L
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist.".
Schools: 4