Galahad Schwartz calls a South American jungle his home. His parents are adventurers and Nobel Prize-winning authors. But when they fail to return from an expedition in their hot-air balloon Galahad must leave the jungle to live with his grandfather in a North American slum. There he learns that the jungle and the city have some things in common!Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army won the Governor General's Award, Canada's highest book prize.