The River Weeps: Panama Girl, #4

By Ida Freer

Fourth book in the Panama Girl Series.

The indigenous Embera village where fifteen year old Surni lives with her family and friends is facing a new and puzzling  threat.  In the river that flows past her village the water is poisoned and  frogs and fish are dying.

Surni is determined to discover the reason and preserve the pristine jungle wilderness that is her home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ida Freer
• Release date: Nov 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781497768727

Ida Freer

Ida Freer has spent time in several Embera communities in the culturally and geographically diverse country of Panama. Currently, she lives and teaches in Surrey, Canada.

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