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Jaguar

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Jaguar is a very exciting book that will keep you turning pages. It is about a young boy named Jake Lansa. It is a series from the first book, Thunder Cave. Jake's gransfather is a Hopi Indian and his father is a field biologist, Robert, who is called Doc. Doc is helping his best friend, Bill to make a Jaguar reservation. But when the boat mysteriously explodes, it kills Bill and injures Buzz, the pilot for the Jaguar tracking device. Doc decides to create the dream of his best friend with his son and his girlfriend, Flanna (Jake's mother died), along with a strange person named Silver who has a boat ready for them. They reach the reservation spot, and with the help of Raul, an Indian, they track a jaguar mother and her 2 kids. Doc falls ill and a terrorist who knows Silver takes over. It seems that their reservation spot is near a gold mine, and a few like Silver and the captor want to get rich. Flanna killed him and they were safe. If you want the whole story, you should read this great book! You can also read The Last Lobo, which continues from Jaguar.

This is a great book to use for the classroom. I plan to use it in my 6th grade Language Arts class. This book has it all - great characters, superb plot, survival/adventure aspects, and internal and external conflicts. I look forward to reading more of Roland Smith's books.

I had to read this book for my English class, but once i started, i couldn't stop and put it down. a week before we finished i read to the end of the book. i give this book really high recomendation to anyone. if u like it tell yur friends!

ok i know you've read the other reviews so ill make this quick. I absolutly HATE to read. but when I was required to read a book I randomly chose this one from the school library. so i decided to read it and I couldnt put it down! unlike alot of other books this one starts off with the hook sinker, then keeps your attention. I rated this book 100 out of 100.

Reviewed by Chris
Jaguar: By Roland Smith

Roland Smith's "Jaguar" is an adventurous novel about a boy and his relationship with his father while they work on a jaguar preserve in South America. Jake Lansa is a typical teenager, but when his mother dies he has to go searching for his father in Kenya, by himself. He finds him. His name is Dr. Robert Lansa, but there is a problem. The problem is that he and his father are not very close, and Jake has never called him "Dad", he has always called him "Doc".

Skipping ahead a few years, Jake joins his father in Manus, somewhere in South America, where they are working on a jaguar preserve. The suspense builds when a boat blows up killing a crucial member of the preserve team. Now Jake and his father have to decide if they want to keep going with the plans to maintain the preserve or call it quits and go back home. When a suspicious looking boat captain offers to take them up river so they can reach the preserve, they have no choice but to say yes. That decision sets up an unfortunate chain of events for Jake, his dad, and the rest of the team.

Life at the preserve gets more suspenseful when Doc and Raul go searching for animals to collar. After being gone for so long, Doc returns terribly ill and can't even walk. Raul is captured by some local Indian tribe who is holding him hostage. Also in this wild adventure, Silver disappears from camp in search of an ancient landmark but trouble comes his way when the rest of the team needs to get back home and they don't have a captain to drive the ship. Jake goes looking for them and is able to find Silver and free Raul and is still able to get back home safely.

Jaguar is a non-stop, action packed novel that is hard to put down after the first sentence! It has elements of suspense, love, family relationships, growing up, good vs. bad, danger, and it takes place in the beautiful Amazon Rainforest. I would recommend this book to everyone who loves adventure in the palms of their hands.

Jake is a very curios and adventurous kid and he has just come back from an adventure in Kenya when his father goes down to brazil. During his trip to Brazil Doc finds some things he wants to say to Jake about the preserve for Jaguars and other things, so Doc sends for Jake. When Jake arrives in Brazil he goes on a wild ride. From experiencing a death to learning how to ride a go-cart with wings? to tracking jaguars in the rainforest. On his adventure he meets an amazing indian man who can hunt and adapt to any enviroment. He also meets a man who might take all hope away plus his father and friends. This book knows how to keep you hooked. When you read it your like: Is he bad? or, will the preserve open. Theres just so many questions that only get answered if you read the book!!!! Read this book to find out how the journey ends.

Jaguar is about Jacob Lansa going to Brazil with his father. His father plans to set up a jaguar perserve with another woman named Flanna. Jacob's big worry was that his father wouldn't let him stay with him and he would have to go back to Poughkeepsie. Then he forgot all about it when bigger problems occured. Before they even begin their journey upriver their boat exploded and on top of that Jacob got attacked by a man. Things get going and they get up river to find that more problems occur. Jacob finds out that their new boat driver, Silver, is looking for the lost mines of Muribeca and leaves their camp site. Jacob's father then goes out on and expedition in the woods for a couple of days to get more jaguars collared for the perserve. One day he came stumbling back to camp very sick and weak and they were going to leave if only they could find Silver to take them. Jacob walked out of the tent one afternoon and found 2 men. They had sabatoughed Silver's boat and they were also looking for the lost mines. They tied Jacob and Flanna and left Jacob's father in the tent, then they went lookinbg for Sliver. The rest of the book you will just have to read to find out what happens to everybody and if they found the lost mines.

Though this story was written for a younger audience it remarkably contains orignal characters and a fast paced yet believable plot. If you're an adult definity buy it for your kid and maybe even read it yourself, because surprisingly most adult novels lack the realism that Smith brings into his stories.

In the book Jaguar there is a boy and his dad was a scientist and he studied Jaguars. His dad had to go to Brazil and he had to stay with his grandpa in a retirement home. A few months later he got a letter from his dad saying that he could come down to Brazil to find out what happened in Brazil, you'll have to read the book.

This book is just as good as Thunder cave. It deals with Jake Lansa again as this time he follows his father to the Amazon rain forest. This is one of the best books I have ever read! I hope there will be another book to follow.