Return of the Quetzal

About the Book

Return of the Quetzal is a ripping good yarn, a wonderfully dramatic story based on the theme of faiths-religious faith, false faith, faith in one's self, in other people, and in one's roots.

The teenage heroine Meg, uprooted from her smug little middle class life in England, struggles to find her place in the multi-cultural broil of a small Central American country. She stands alone in both her doubts about the strangely compelling and mysterious new teacher and in her search for her missing brother until she meets Tony, her first friend in a strange country, and her first love.

The quest for her brother in the heart of the Costa Rican Rain Forest is beautifully realized, as is the terrific final climax to the book.

-Bette Paul (Children's Author and Winner of the Carnegie Medal.)

About the Author

Margaret Gill holds a degree in English Literature and has taught for many years in schools and colleges in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. She has won prizes for her poetry and children?s fiction. Her other published novels for children include Secret of The Rothley Papers and Decree of The Amulet.

Return of the Quetzal is her first novel for teenagers.