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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Zonia's home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer? Acclaimed author-illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal explores the wonders of the rain forest...
2) The explorer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
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"A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly illustrated story will spark lasting conversations about cross-cultural relationships, the importance of oral storytelling, and what it means to be a lifelong learner." --Page [4] of cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help. Lush illustrations are complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, discover inventor Hank Witherspoon is missing, they travel deep into the Amazon jungle, overcoming strange creatures, a raging river, and some very clever foes to find their friend and protect his big idea.
8) The Amazon
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Wildes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"A research trip to the Amazon rainforest turns into a dangerous mystery when Ring and Asia Wilde's scientist mother goes missing, and in order to rescue her, they must use their skills to survive the jungle"--
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Children of the lamp volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try to recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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As two Takunami youths approach their thirteenth birthdays, Luka reaches the culmination of his mother's training for the tribe's manhood test while Tirio, raised in Miami, Florida, by his adoptive mother, feels called to begin preparations to prove himself during his upcoming visit to the Amazon rain forest where he was born.
11) Tree of Dreams
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Hispanic Heritage Month (Children's)
Hispanic Heritage Month - Fiction & Graphic Novels
Summer Reading 2024 - Grades 3-5 Fiction
Hispanic Heritage Month - Fiction & Graphic Novels
Summer Reading 2024 - Grades 3-5 Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where...
13) Amazon fever
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Jeff accompanies his uncle to the Amazon rain forest to acquire butterflies for an exhibit at the museum where his uncle works, Jeff hopes to see real jaguars as well.
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Fabien Cousteau expeditions volume 3
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English
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"Junior explorers Will and Jacklyn join Fabien Cousteau and his crew of scientists on a riverboat journey into the Amazon jungle, seeking to determine if a new species of giant piranha exists."--Provided by publisher
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Secret agents Jack and Max Stalwart volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jack and Max Stalwart head to the Amazon jungle to investigate the disappearance of a Global Protection Force scientist and run up against an outlaw intent on illegally mining gold.
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Accidental adventure volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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All eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel want to do is watch television, but their explorer father takes them in search of El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold, and their long-lost mother.
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(Maya Gabrielle).Beetle trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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With his father brainwashed to help the evil Lucretia unleash her hoard of Frankenstein beetles, Darkus teams with Virginia and Bertolt to try and stop her and save his father before it is too late.
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Español
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"Un largo viaje de aventuras al corazón de la Amazonía. Tres amigos y un perro inician un largo viaje en busca del árbol del cacao, que los llevará hasta el corazón de la Amazonía. ¿Conseguirán hallar un árbol entre 400.000 millones en la mayor selva del planeta? En este viaje encontrarán nuevos amigos con los que van a vivir grandes aventuras." --Back cover.
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Español
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"El sol, la luna y la lluvia llevan semanas sin dejarse ver por la selva y todo está envuelto en una larga noche. Los animales del bosque amazónico -diurnos y nocturnos, que corren, vuelan o nadan, que rugen o graznan-, preocupados porque ya no reconocen su hogar, emprenden un viaje para averiguar por qué no amanece. El texto poético y el emotivo tratamiento del color en “Esperando el amanecer” son las herramientas de las que se sirve Fabiola...
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