Cindy L. Rodriguez crée des récits destinés aux jeunes adultes, explorant souvent des thèmes de luttes personnelles et de bien-être mental. Son style est profondément introspectif, offrant aux lecteurs un aperçu intime de la psyché de ses personnages. Rodriguez s'appuie sur son expérience d'éducatrice pour s'assurer que ses histoires résonnent avec les problèmes pressants auxquels sont confrontés les adolescents contemporains. Son travail se distingue par sa représentation authentique des paysages émotionnels et le voyage vers la compréhension et l'espoir.
Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and an adventurer. In the early 1900s, he spent years mapping out the jungles of South America. Fawcett became obsessed with the idea of a lost city of gold hidden deep in the jungle. At the age of 57, Fawcett, his 21-year-old son Jack, and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimell left on a quest to find the Lost City of Z. The three men were never heard from again. Untangle the clues they left behind.
On 6 May 1996, dozens of excited climbers set off to scale Mount Everest and reach the highest point on Earth. On the morning of 10 May, the skies were clear. The summit was in sight. But hours later, a terrible storm hit. Eight climbers died as they became trapped near the peak. What went wrong, and how did the survivors manage to make it back alive?