amazon river region

Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.

Readers learn about the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world.

Grant, Christina, and their new friend Sam embark on a great adventure in the Amazon rainforest, where they meet a native boy who helps them through a maze of ancient ruins, where they find a new mystery to solve.

As teenagers P.C. and Mackenzie, amateur detectives, escort a mummy down the Amazon river in Peru on behalf of P.C.'s archeologist father, they investigate whether the murder of a fellow passenger is related to an ancient curse.

Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest and is genetically engineered to be immortal and be the future of the human race, but on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.

Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest and is genetically engineered to be immortal and be the future of the human race, but on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.

As part of a group of young adventurers traveling the length of the Amazon River, the reader will encounter dangers and must make the choices that will ensure survival and the success of the expedition.

"Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where the plight of the native people and their jungle gives her a new perspective and purpose in life"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the food web and ecology of the Amazon Rainforest.

Introduces the climate, plants, and animals of the rain forest biome. Includes color photographs, a food web diagram, a glossary, and further resources.