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"In Nature Numbers, math is beautiful, recognizable, and all around us! Highly engaging full-color photos of animals and nature scenes, along with cool chalk illustrations, are used to introduce basic math concepts and encourage kids to see a world of numbers all around them.K-2 math concepts include measuring. This book explores measuring elements of the rainforest with amazing nature pictures and chalk illustrations! "--
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Explores rain forest habitats, including the canopy and the understory, special plants and animals, and current threats to the world's rain forests. Have you ever wanted to learn more about the habitat in which you live? Or learn more about another habitat? Each book in the Habitats series brings readers up close to a different habitat from around the world. Photographs and easy-to-read text share information about climate, plants, animals, and more!...
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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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Magic tree house. Original series volume 26
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.
27) Origin
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"Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark...
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Describes the climatic conditions of the rain forest as well as the different layers of plants and animals that comprise the ecosystem. The ecosystem of the rain forest is explained, with material on how these resources should be protected and preserved.
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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...
30) Berani
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"Perspectives of two Indonesian middle-schoolers and a caged orangutan entwine. Wealthy Malia faces the consequences of disobediently circulating an anti-palm-oil petition at her school, resulting in suspensions for herself, her best friend, and her teacher. Ari, fortunate to be plucked from his impoverished village to attend school and compete in chess tournaments, helps the uncle who is hosting him but worries about Ginger Juice, the orangutan his...
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Secret explorers volume 5
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The Secret Explorers head to the Borneo rainforest on a mission to rescue a lost baby orangutan. Along the way, they learn about threats to the rainforest--especially from greedy plantation owners to want to cut down the rainforest to expand palm oil production.
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"Lush, moist, and teeming with life, rain forests are one of Earths biome wonders. Peel back the corners of the rain forest to discover what lives within one of the planets busiest environments, from wolves and porcupines to monkeys and poison dart frogs. Learn how each organism functions within its rainforest ecosystem and how it survives in one of the most predatory biomes on Earth. Find out, too, how rain forests are found all around the world...
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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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"¿Qué recibe alrededor de 90 pulgadas de lluvia cada año? ¿Qué tiene bosques llenos de flores e insectos tan grandes como tu puño? Toma tu cámara y un paraguas. ¡Haz un recorrido de los frondosos bosques tropicales del mundo!"--P. [4] of cover.
What gets about 90 inches of rain each year? What has forests full of colorful flowers and insects as big as your fist? Grab your camera (and an umbrella). Take a tour of the world's lush rainforests!...
36) Rainforests
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There s no need to get wet hiking into a rainforest to find out what lies under the canopy. In the pages of this entertaining, yet accessible, volume, readers will learn about conditions in the rainforest, a habitat that s home to half of all species of animals and plants on Earth. Vivid photographs reveal tropical rainforests as lively and vibrant places, while simple text encourages beginning readers to become explorers of Earth s wonders.
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FernGully: the last rainforest: "Deep in the heart of the forest awaits a paradise filled with tiny sprites, winged fairies, tree spirits, and all kinds of animals who live together in joyful harmony. But when their home is threatened by humans, one courageous sprite must give her all to save it"--Container.
FernGully 2: The magical rescue: "All is well in Ferngully until the day a group of humans comes in and captures three baby animals under Crysta's...
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Wild Animal Survival volume 3
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Swoop! After people had stolen Gibbon out of a Vietnam rain forest, he finds himself hundreds of miles away from home. His unique friendship with an Orangutan teaches him the secrets within the Asian rain forest. But how can she help him get back home without getting recaptured by the people. Find out in this exciting new adventure. Gibbon Finds A Friend, is a delightful story with detailed illustrations capturing the unique behavior of primates....
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