Welcome To The Jungle (The 8th Continent, 2) - Hardcover

Praise for the 8TH CONTINENT series: "Fast-paced action, cool inventions and remarkable robots combine for an auspicious opener." --Kirkus Reviews "Good fun in the tradition of M. T. Anderson's Pals in Peril series." --Booklist "Zippy pace and original premise." --School Library Journal "Kids will especially enjoy George's outlandish robotic and vehicular inventions . . . in this fun yet thought-provoking story." --Publishers Weekly "This is a delightful start to the adventures of the Lane family, with their flying tree and their mechanical bird tutor. Evie and Rick and their brilliant if eccentric parents are wonderfully vivid, and the villains who try to impede them in their quest to save the Earth, equally memorable. It's all in the great tradition of adventure fiction for young readers, running back through Akiko and Freddy the Pig all the way to Tom Sawyer." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Red Mars Praise for the 8TH CONTINENT series: "Fast-paced action, cool inventions and remarkable robots combine for an auspicious opener." --"Kirkus Reviews" "Good fun in the tradition of M. T. Anderson s Pals in Peril series." --"Booklist" "Zippy pace and original premise." --"School Library Journal" Kids will especially enjoy George s outlandish robotic and vehicular inventions . . . in this fun yet thought-provoking story. --"Publishers Weekly" "This is a delightful start to the adventures of the Lane family, with their flying tree and their mechanical bird tutor. Evie and Rick and their brilliant if eccentric parents are wonderfully vivid, and the villains who try to impede them in their quest to save the Earth, equally memorable. It's all in the great tradition of adventure fiction for young readers, running back through Akiko and Freddy the Pig all the way to Tom Sawyer." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of"Red Mars"" Praise for the 8TH CONTINENT series: "Fast-paced action, cool inventions and remarkable robots combine for an auspicious opener." --"Kirkus Reviews " "Good fun in the tradition of M. T. Anderson's Pals in Peril series." --"Booklist" "Zippy pace and original premise." --"School Library Journal" "Kids will especially enjoy George's outlandish robotic and vehicular inventions . . . in this fun yet thought-provoking story." --"Publishers Weekly" "This is a delightful start to the adventures of the Lane family, with their flying tree and their mechanical bird tutor. Evie and Rick and their brilliant if eccentric parents are wonderfully vivid, and the villains who try to impede them in their quest to save the Earth, equally memorable. It's all in the great tradition of adventure fiction for young readers, running back through Akiko and Freddy the Pig all the way to Tom Sawyer." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of "Red Mars"

Rick and Evie Lane have finally converted the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into an eighth continent. But their dream of a new homeland for their family turns out to be short-lived. Because when robots from the villainous Condo Corp crash into their continent, a fatal oversight in the building process is revealed: the land mass was never anchored to the ocean floor! Now, the eighth continent is sent barrelling toward the coast of Australia, thrusting Rick and Evie's dreams, 23 million people, and countless plants and animals into jeopardy. If Rick and Evie are ever to get their family back together and have a continent to run-and not run after-they must find a way to root their beloved paradise to the Earth's crust. Or else everything that they built will go pow like Pangaea!