The Lost Rainforest #1: Mez's Magic: A Middle Grade Adventure About a Panther and Friends Protecting Their Home for Kids (Ages 8-12). This item is unavailable.The Lost Rainforest #1: Mez's Magic: A Middle Grade Adventure About a Panther and Friends Protecting Their Home for Kids (Ages 8-12)

An action-packed and hilarious animal fantasy adventure from New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer, “this new series stunner” (Kirkus starred review) will thrill fans of Warriors and Spirit Animals. Includes a stunning full-color poster!

Caldera has forever been divided into the animals who walk by night and those who walk by day. Nightwalker panthers, like young Mez and her sister, have always feared daywalkers as creatures of myth and legend.

Then Mez discovers that she can enter the daylight world, and she rushes to discover what it means to cross the Veil―and the extent of her newly uncovered magical powers―before a reawakened evil threatens everything she’s ever known.

Now, with an unlikely group of animal friends―including a courageous bat, a scholarly tree frog, and an anxious monkey―Mez must unravel an ancient mystery and face her greatest fears, if they are to have any hope of saving their endangered rainforest home.

A panther who can walk in daylight is an abomination. What happens when she’s also the rainforest’s only hope?

• Magical Abilities: Mez is a shadowwalker, born during an eclipse with the rare power to cross the Veil. But discovering her magic might be the most dangerous thing she’s ever done.
• An Epic Quest: To save her rainforest home of Caldera, Mez must unravel an ancient mystery and confront the reawakened evil of the legendary Ant Queen.
• Talking Animals: This action-packed animal fantasy is perfect for middle grade readers and fans of series like Warriors and Spirit Animals.
• Unlikely Friendship: She can’t do it alone. Mez joins forces with a courageous bat, a brainy tree frog, and a very anxious monkey to face her greatest fears.

Eliot Schrefer is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for kids and teens, including The Darkness Outside Us and its sequel, The Brightness Between Us, as well as Charming Young Man, Endangered, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality, and the picture book Lulu and the Others. His books have twice been named finalists for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and have garnered a Printz Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and the Green Earth Book Award. He is on the faculty of the creative writing MFA program at Hamline University and lives with his husband in New York City. Visit him online at eliotschrefer.com.