by Jean Craighead George · SALVAT / ALFAGUARA: BIBLIOTECA JUVENIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434586208
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«Ratas de río, S.A.» is the young adult novel by Jean Craighead George, published by Salvat / Alfaguara in paperback (143 pages, in Spanish).
Two boys travel the Colorado River at night without permission, carrying a mysterious cargo. When their boat sinks, they are left adrift and must fend for themselves to survive in the wild; along the way they meet a wild boy who lives in the area and whose help proves decisive.
Part of the Biblioteca Juvenil collection, number 40. Translation by Guillermo Lorenzo of the original «River Rats, Inc.» published in 1979.
Aimed at young readers, it combines adventure and survival in a natural setting.
Jean Carolyn Craighead George was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery Honor My Side of the Mountain. Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, Journey Inward.
