The reason Kate goes is to write an article about the Beast. Soon, they pack off to go to the Amazon with some professors and photographers. He is greatly saddened by the loss of his precious flute, but Kate gives him the flute belonging to his grandfather, Joseph Cold. She offers him pot and steals his backpack that contained his clothes, his money and his flute. In the process he meets a girl named Morgana, a homeless girl in her mid-20's. Once Alex arrives in New York City, and finds out that his grandmother had no intentions of collecting him at the airport and is forced to walk to her apartment, several blocks away. Meanwhile, Kate announces that she will be taking Alex with her to the Amazon rain-forest during his visit. His sisters, however are sent to live with their Grandmother Carla. Despite his desperate pleading, Alex is sent off to New York City to stay with his eccentric grandmother Kate Cold, a reporter for International Geographic Magazine. While his parents leave for Texas to try to treat his mother's cancer, Alex and his sisters are sent to live with their grandmothers. Published in 2002.Ĭity of the Beasts begins with the story of Alexander Cold, who is 15 years old and going through a family crisis. La ciudad de las bestias = City of the Beasts (Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar #1), Isabel AllendeĬity of the Beasts is the first young adult novel by Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende.
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