Award winning title: Third place in the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature A fast-paced adventure set deep in a Caribbean forest with a hero who must risk everything to save the forest and his village. Twelve-year-old JV can't wait to spend his vacation exploring the Oscuros Forest. True, everyone in the village of Alcavere believes the Oscuros Forest is a place to be feared, inhabited by dangerous and magical beings. But JV is not afraid, even when his first trip into the forest brings him face-to-face with a mysterious creature. Then the disappearance of one of their own shakes the village and JV joins the