Central Kansas Library System

When an English city boy named Makur visits India, the land of his ancestors, for a funeral, he is carried away by a flash flood and must call on all his knowledge and skills to survive on his own in the jungle and make his way to safety.

Mowgli, a child left alone in the jungle, is found and raised by a family of wolves. Mowgli is sent away when the Shere Kahn, the tiger, enters the jungle and has an unsuccessful confrontation with Mowgli. Eventually Mowgli finds his true home in a man-village.