Books by Mississippi Writers 1996-2010
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3-1-2002
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By Karen Knight Winter PublishAmerica (Paperback, $16.95, ISBN: 1591291356, 3/2002) Reading level: Ages 9-12 Sixteen-year-old Rob finds himself in the rainforest of New Guinea on a Youth Corp project after being expelled from boarding school. Shortly after arriving in New Guinea, Rob and his friends, Mike and Teke (a native New Guinean), discover the Youth Corps project is actually a front for an international gold smuggling ring. The leaders of the Youth Corps project are shipping gold from the gold mines in the New Guinea highlands and shipping it to the United States and Japan. Rob and his friends realize that their very lives are dependent on the project leaders for food, medicine, and communications.
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