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Magic tree house. Original series volume 6
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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.
2) Jungle
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Describes life in the tropical rain forest, from the exotic birds in the tree tops to the millions of insects on the forest floor.
3) Micro
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Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being...
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Lost rainforest volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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Mez, a panther who discovers her magical powers after an eclipse, must unite the other animals to save Caldera from an evil force.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Join the award-winning author Sy Montgomery and the photographer Keith Ellenbogen as they traverse the river and rainforest to discover how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve the Amazon, its animals, and the rich legacy of its people. Amazon Adventure is an eye-opening exploration of how humanity?s practices are affecting and shaping not only the Amazon, but our entire environment.
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Lost rainforest volume 2
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"Gogi and the other shadowwalkers race to save their magical rainforest home before the Ant Queen makes it her own"--
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Jack and the geniuses volume 3
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"Dr. Hank Witherspoon has disappeared. When Jack and his genius siblings, Ava and Matt, find Hank's lab ransacked, they uncover clues pointing them to Brazil--but many questions remain. Why was Hank studying dangerous electric eels? And who is trying to steal his inventions? Their investigation leads them to a soccer prodigy, his savvy sister, a business tycoon who zips around on motorized boots, and a strangely incompetent riverboat captain. In the...
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Lost rainforest volume 3
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After the Ant Queen is defeated by the shadowwalkers, the magical rainforest begins to rumble, and Rumi, a scholarly frog, must rally the other animals to save their home.
9) Rain forest
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Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st American ed.
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Describes various aspects of the rainforest, including such topics as forest layers, variety of life there, plants of the rainforest, and much more.
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Estranged couple Lewis and Helen Burke gain insights into the meaning of life and their marriage after Lewis's plane is forced to make an emergency landing in the Congo and he escapes into the rain forest to escape capture by rebels, and Helen defies authorities by setting off, along with her seven-year-old blind son, to find him.
11) Spy: a thriller
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With tensions on its southern border threatening to ignite into war, America must look to the one man who might be able to confront the demons in the jungle...and destroy them. Alex Hawke, with theaid of brilliant Scotland Yard Inspector Ambrose Congreve, and an unstoppable force of nature named Stokely Jones, begins a river journey fraught with peril.
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The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights...
Pub. Date
c2007
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Segments 7 through 9 of the BBC 11-part nature series. 40 camera teams were shooting at over 200 different locations all over the world for more than 5 years to get the pictures seen in the series. Each segment is followed by a sequence investigating the techniques and challenges of wildlife photography within that segment.
Great plains: On these immense wildernesses, from the baking savannahs of Africa to the frozen tundra of the Arctic, are found...
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