Kalahari, by Jessica Khoury

This book is incredible. It is about 5 teens that get stranded in the Kalahari Desert in Africa, after an educational field trip goes wrong. They are alone, without a guide in a place that is tough to survive in even if you know what you're doing. Sarah, the daughter of a zoologist is the only one in the group that can help them. They feel like they are pretty well off, when an encounter with the strangest animal Sarah has ever seen, a silver lion, completely sets off everything they did and knew. Later, they find out that that lion is part of something bigger. Much bigger. It also has EVERYTHING to do with Sarah's mother. This enchanting book kept me reading till the very last page. Romance, suspense, horror, death. All of that makes a wonderful book, and all of that is in "Kalahari". READ IT!! - Emmie, Grade 7, Cambridge Street