Meanwhile Kate announces that when Alex arrives she will be taking him with her to the Amazon rainforest. His sisters, however are sent to live with their grandmother Carla. Alexander is sent off to stay with his grandmother Kate Cold who is a pipe smoking, vodka-drinking reporter for International Geographic Magazine. He and his family are going through a family crisis where as his mother has cancer so his parents leave for Texas to treat it, which is why him and his sisters are sent to live with their grandmothers. The story was set in the Amazon rainforest and it all begins with a story about a 15 year-old boy by the name of Alexander Cold. It was first written in Spanish because Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American and then later translated to English by a lady with the name of Margaret Sayers Peden. The novel was named to the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review and Book Magazine’s list of best science fiction novels of 2002. Isabel Allende wrote several novels but one of them that is her most popular one is City of the Beasts, which was published not too long ago in 2002.
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