Continuing her perilous quest for the lost Book of Forbidden Knowledge, Marnie McBride, The Chosen One, heads back across the Great Ocean to America with the Shoebox Zoo and the magical torn page from the Book of Knowledge. With her twelfth birthday fast approaching, time is running out, and Marnie persuades her father to let her spend the summer with her grandparents where, unknown to him, she can continue the search for the Book. But will Marnie have the strength to resist the dark magic that tempts her? This novelisation of the second series of "Shoebox Zoo" is essential reading for all Shoebox Zoo fans.