Cats have nine lives. Ben has one. Keeping it will test him to the very limit. An Amazon expedition gone wrong throws Ben into a world of superstition and adventure. Now he must survive the mysterious Jaguar Trials to escape the jungle and uncover the truth about the lost City of Gold. In this spellbinding children's adventure, award-winning author Ruth Eastham teaches us the value of friendship, and helps us to discover that there is more than just one kind of treasure.

 

This book was published 2018 by Vertebrate Publishing .

Ruth Eastham is an award-winning author from the UK. Her debut novel, The Memory Cage, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and won the Inspiration Book Award. Teachers voted it best story in the UK Literacy Association Book Award, and it won and was shortlisted for many other regional prizes. The Memory Cage was also nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Her second book, The Messenger Bird won and was shortlisted for many local authority book prizes and its Enigma Code themes made it a featured book at the famous Bletchley Park. Ruth is a popular speaker in schools, in the UK and abroad, fascinating children with the real-life mysteries and dramas behind these and her other books: The Jaguar Trials and The Warrior in the Mist. Ruth has lived in New Zealand, Australia and Italy and has two daughters.

This book has the following chapters: Prologue; PART 1 - AMAZONIA; 1 The River; 2 Sabotage; 3 Amber And Jade; 4 Drowned Ghosts; 5 The Green Hell; 6 Professor Erskine; 7 Shaman; PART 2 - THE DEATH TRIALS; 8 Unquiet Spirits; 9 Dead End; 10 The Trial of The Hanging Shroud; 11 Woven Water; 12 The Trial of The Sapphire Streak; 13 Hunters; 14 Moonlight; 15 Escape; 16 Whispers; 17 The Trial of The Howling Heights; 18 Fool's Gold; 19 Valley Of Shadows; 20 Guardians of The Dead; 21 Journey's End; PART 3 - CITY OF Z; 22 Dead City; 23 Masks; 24 The One; 25 The Golden Man; 26 Flood; 27 Redemption; 28 El Dorado; Acknowledgements; About the author.