Night vision goggles, a drone and a can of bear spray are not what you’d expect a twelve-year-old boy to pack for summer holidays with his granny. Not unless you’re Armando Garcia and you and your eccentric granny secretly plan to join the Amazing Animal Race, a grueling, continent-hopping competition to photograph seven endangered animals in seventy days. 

Eight years earlier, Armando’s mother, a wildlife photographer, mysteriously disappeared on the same race–something his over-protective father never wants to talk about. But, when Armando accidentally discovers his mother’s tattered race journal, he convinces his granny to join him on the second Amazing Animal Race.  (For more details click here)