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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The reader is invited to blaze a trail through this forest of symbols. The last chapter will shed light on the profound meaning of the fable. But the point is less to capture than to be captivated by the energy, the luxuriance, and the playful solemnity of writing that masterfully melds French, Creole, and yet other voices as well."--L'Express.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Things along America's southern border are rapidly reaching the boiling point. American girls are being snatched from their homes, ranches are burning, and armed Mexican troops cross the border at will in support of narcotic smugglers and illegal immigrants. By day, Americans take up arms and plan reprisals. An all-out border war is no longer inconceivable--it's happening! On assignment for the British Secret Service, a man leads a mysterious expedition...
4) Rita
Author
Publisher
OQO Editora
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Rita the butterfly may live in the dangerous tropical rainforest, but she isn't afraid of anything, until one day when she gets too close to a group of elephants splashing in the river.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2016: Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. Lea volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During a hike with her brother through the Amazon rainforest, fifth-grader Lea discovers a badly injured baby sloth.
6) Mez's magic
Author
Series
Lost rainforest volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Mez, a panther who discovers her magical powers after an eclipse, must unite the other animals to save Caldera from an evil force.
Author
Series
Rainbow magic. Earth fairies volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lily the Rain forest Fairy whisks the girls away to a tropical forest to find her wand. Lily needs her wand to save the rainforest-and to get Rachel and Kirsty home safe again.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 6
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
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.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bruce Wayne is at a meeting in Brazil, when he hears that people are disappearing from the local villages, apparently victims of a legendary giant bat--but when Batman investigates he finds Man-Bat and Poison Ivy, and must find a way to stop them, and still come up with a plan to accomplish Ivy's goal of protecting the rainforest from destruction.
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