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.

Where?' someone yells, 'Where are we landing?' 'Africa. Somewhere.' A plane in trouble, a terrifying plummet into the depths of an African jungle, and capture by rebel military troopsall in just the first chapter of this brilliant debut novel by Marcus Stevens. Lewis' day begins with a bitter quarrel with his wife and ends on a crumbling, overgrown jungle airstrip somewhere deep in war-torn Congo. With the cockpit on fire, the pilots of his plane...

Russell has entered the race around the world and knows it's going to be tough. The first leg of the race is through the Amazon rain forest where he and his team face animals, rapids, venom, and sneaky competitors.

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

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

While on a hike through the Amazon rain forest, Lea confronts piranhas and anacondas, but when she comes across an injured baby sloth, she must decide whether or not it is right to try to save it.

Rhyming verse describes the activities of many of the creatures that inhabit the Amazon rainforest. Includes facts about the animals in the book and about the Amazon River and rainforest.

Bruce Wayne is in the rainforests of Brazil in this comics and chapter book hybrid, but there's trouble in the local villages - people are disappearing! Corporate developers are tearing down the forest, and a legend tells of a giant bat creature that will defend the plant life from those who would destroy it. Batman takes up the case, and he soon finds out the strange goings-on are more than just folklore - it's Man-Bat and Posion Ivy!

An exceptional new novel about falling down, risking everything and embracing what makes us unique. Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works to fulfill everyone else's needs. She's certain that her mom's bitterness and her TV star father's absence are her fault. If only she were...

Famed inventor Henry "Hank" Witherspoon has gone missing, and it's up to Jack and his brilliant siblings, Ava and Matt, to find him. At Hank's ransacked lab, the siblings discover clues to the project he's been working on-a new way to generate and store electricity, inspired by the electric eels of the Amazon. The kids travel deep into the Amazon jungle, following a series of clues Hank has left. Relying on genius, cunning, and new technology,...