rain forests

"The Thea Sisters are heading to Malaysia. Their friends, Latifah and Ramlee, are writing a travel guide and have asked the sisters to help them research. They are stopping at all the best sites, eating all the best foods, and seeing the most amazing animals, especially in the rainforest. While exploring, they learn about a plan to cut down the trees in the forest, and Ramlee and their guide go missing!"--Back cover.

"The magical rainforest of Caldera has forever been divided into those animals who walk by night and those who walk by day. Nightwalker panthers, like young Mex and beloved sister, have always feared daywalkers as creatures of myth and legend. Until the eclipse. Now Mez has discovered that she has the ability to cross the Veil and enter the daylight world. She must rush to discover the unknown depths to her magical power after a mysterious stranger arrives at her family's den, bearing warnings of a reawakened evil"--Publisher.

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.

A pictoral introduction to the animal and plant life of the jungle.

When Jeff accompanies his uncle to the Amazon rain forest to acquire butterflies for an exhibit at the museum where his uncle works, Jeff hopes to see real jaguars as well.

While hunting for food in the rain forest for his starving village, a young boy encounters a panther that teaches him how to conserve.

A cumulative verse that introduces some of the many different plants and animals that live in and around a tree growing in the rain forest. Includes facts and illustrations.

Provides information about rain forests and their importance to life on Earth, discusses the dangers posed to the planet by the loss of rain forest ecosystems, and looks at what is being done in countries around the world to save these vital environments.

Describes the work of Meg Lowman in the rainforest canopy, an area unexplored until the last ten years and home to previously unknown species of plants and animals.

A cumulative verse that introduces some of the many different plants and animals that live in and around a tree growing in the rain forest. Includes facts and illustrations.