"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 9 1/2-year-old girl who finds herself tangled up in trouble again while visiting Costa Rica with her mother. 'I don't cause problems!' Isabela insists. 'Problems find me.' Isabela and her friend Daniela devise a plan to capture and train a howler monkey. When their antics cause a baby monkey to shock himself on an electrical wire and fall from a tree, Isabela and Daniel are in a race against the clock to try to save his life before it's too late"--Back cover.