New Releases by Margaret Sayers Peden

Escorted by his bold grandmother, reporter Kate Cold, Alexander and his friend, Nadia, enter a magical realm in the Himalayas in search of the Golden Dragon, but the task isn''t simple and soon the explorers must seek help from the animal spirits to safely guide them through what lies ahead. Reprint.

A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teach the chick to fly.

Originally going to Africa to write an article for her magazine, Kate teams up with Nadia Santos who leads her new companion on a search for some missing missionaries--and ends up in a dark forest occupied by Pygmies and their slaves where their own lives may now be at stake. Reprint.

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

In words and photographic portraits, the authors bring together forty-eight of Mexico''s most acclaimed artists -- among them Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz -- in the performing, visual, and literary arts, displaying the creative powers of a nation.