The Jaguar Trials: Play the game. Escape the jungle.

By Ruth Eastham

‘A nail-biting read.’ – LoveReading4Kids

Cats have nine lives.

Ben has one.

Keeping it will test him to the very limit.

An Amazon expedition gone wrong throws Ben into a world of superstition and adventure.

Now he must survive the mysterious Jaguar Trials to escape the jungle and uncover the truth about the lost City of Gold.

In this spellbinding children’s adventure, award-winning author Ruth Eastham teaches us the value of friendship, and helps us to discover that there is more than just one kind of treasure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vertebrate Digital
• Release date: May 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781911342649

Ruth Eastham

Ruth Eastham is an award-winning author from the UK. Her debut novel, The Memory Cage, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and her writing has won and been shortlisted for many other national and regional awards. Her second book, The Messenger Bird, won and was shortlisted for many local authority book prizes and its Enigma Code themes made it a featured book at the famous Bletchley Park. Ruth Eastham is a regular visitor to schools, in the UK and internationally, giving inspiring talks and running innovative creative writing workshops for all ages, fascinating children with the real life mysteries and dramas behind these and her other books: The Warrior in the Mist and The Jaguar Trials. She has lived in New Zealand, Australia and Italy and has two daughters.