Gross, Philip

While hunting for rare and endangered species with her uncle in the Himalayas, fourteen-year-old Paris learns about humanity and friendship from Tahr, a twelve-year-old Buddhist monk who is trying to protect a young yeti.

Nick, a sixteen-year-old runaway, is selected for training at a secluded mansion to become one of the elite of living statues, actors who can live a life of ease if they are willing to train hard enough and please their mysterious benefactor, but who may be destroyed if they do not measure up.