Tarzan Twins

Dick and Doc aren't actual twins, but you'd never know it. Sons of twin sisters, raised as brothers, they look alike, think alike, and get into trouble together with uncanny synchronization. When their train derails en route to visit their mysterious cousin in deepest Africa, the two boys do what any adventurous twelve-year-olds would do: they explore. The jungle swallows them whole. Now they're lost, starving, and hunted by everything from lions to hostile tribesmen. But help may come from an unlikely source. Their cousin goes by another name in these parts: Tarzan. King of the Apes. The novel crackles with the breathless energy of early twentieth-century boys' adventure fiction, delivering exactly what it promises: two kids against the wilderness, survival logic mixed with colonial fantasy, and the glow of reading late into the night with a flashlight. It's breezy, it's improbable, and it's never boring.