Amazon Burning

When 22-year-old aspiring journalist, Emma Cohen, is forced to flee the comforts of her NYU student life, she maneuvers an internship from her father at his newspaper in Rio de Janeiro. There, Emma is immediately swept into a major news story—and a life-threatening ordeal—when a famous jungle environmentalist is mysteriously murdered. Griffith's powerful story of a young urban woman coming of age amidst conflict and conflagration in an exotic Amazonian rainforest will give young adult fiction fans a fresh new kind of suspense-action thriller.