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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
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The jungle comes alive as children learn about a wide variety of animals and plants living in the Amazon rainforest, in this adaptation of the song "The green grass grew all around." Includes "For Creative Minds" section with animal and plant adaptation facts and a recipe.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Seeking refuge in the jungles of Venezuela following a failed revolutionary coup, Abel, a young European, falls in love with Rima, a lovely and mysterious girl of the jungle, and the two travel through dense South American jungles and arid grasslands to Rima's distant homeland.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
290L
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
5) Micro
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English
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"Seven graduate students are recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself"--Publisher's description....
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English
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"Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. When a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded with no equipment,...
7) Mez's magic
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Series
Lost rainforest volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Caldera has forever been divided into those animals who walk by night and those who walk by day. Nightwalker panthers, like young Mez and her beloved sister, have always feared daywalkers as creatures of myth and legend. Until the eclipse. Now Mez has discovered that she can cross the Veil and enter the daylight world. Her magical power has unknown depths, but she must rush to discover it after a mysterious stranger arrives at her family's den, bearing...
Author
Series
Magic tree house fact trackers volume 5
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to rain forests, examining their different layers, plants and animals, and human residents, looking at some of the products that originate in the rain forests, and discussing the need to preserve the tropical environments.
9) Jungle
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
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"Discover life in the tropical rain forest--from exotic birds to millions of species of insects."--Cover.
10) The rundown
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
Beck is anxious to retire from his bounty hunter work, but his boss, Walker, has one more "retrieval" job for him. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis. Travis is there looking for a gold statue, which he could sell for millions if he finds it. The powerful Hatcher owns the area's huge mine, and feels that anything found in the area is his property. He refuses to let Beck take Travis back to the U.S. until...
11) The Amazon
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English
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"Introduces the Amazon River and the rain forest that surrounds it, describing their physical characteristics and the plants and animals that live there, and discusses its people, their history, economic and social conditions, and other details."--
13) Rain forest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A dramatic confrontation between the many exotic animal inhabitants of a rain forest and man and his machines is depicted through a simple text and vivid boldly colored illustrations capturing the lush beauty of a primeval rain forest.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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Description
"A poison dart frog clings to a slippery leaf. A sloth creeps through the canopy. The dense rain forest overflows with life. Discover the plants and animals that depend on each other in this biome"--
15) Wild fire
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English
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Leopard shifter Conner Vega carries the scent of a wild animal in its prime, and bears the soul-crushing sins of past betrayals. Isabeau Chandler's never forgiven him--or forgotten him. The mating urge is still with her, and hotter than ever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a hike with her brother through the Amazon rainforest, fifth-grader Lea discovers a badly injured baby sloth.
"Lea Clark is all set for an animal-discovery adventure! She's never been to a rainforest before, and her mind is filled with exciting thoughts about the animals she'll get to see and the pictures she'll get to take deep in the jungle. During a hike with her brother through the Amazon rainforest, they discover a baby sloth that is...
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 32
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"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! Can the sisters track down their friend and...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ainbo was born and grew up in the deepest jungle of the Amazon. One day she discovers that her homeland is being threatened. With the help of her spirit guides "Dillo," a cute and humorous armadillo, and "Vaca," a heavy-set tapir, Ainbo embarks on a journey to save her homeland. As she fights to save her paradise against the greed and exploitation by illegal miners, she struggles to reverse this destruction and the impending evil of the "Yacaruna,"...
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