The Protectors' Pledge

<p><strong>Award winning title: Third place in the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature</strong></p><p><em><strong>A fast-paced adventure set deep in a Caribbean forest with a hero who must risk everything to save the forest and his village.</strong></em></p><p>Twelve-year-old JV can't wait to spend his vacation exploring the Oscuros Forest. True everyone in the village of Alcavere believes the Oscuros Forest is a place to be feared inhabited by dangerous and magical beings. But JV is not afraid even when his first trip into the forest brings him face-to-face with a mysterious creature.</p><p>Then the disappearance of one of their own shakes the village and JV joins the search. He finds himself deep in the Oscuros Forest on a rescue mission and committed to a promise a promise which the Protectors of the forest insist he keeps no matter how dangerous things get.</p><p>Can JV complete his daring quest even as he uncovers in the process a shocking secret that will force him to question everything he thought he knew?</p>