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Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Join the Unknown Adventurer again on this thrilling adventure into the Amazon, which begins with a map discovered in the Royal Geographical Society showing a river that has been mysteriously rubbed out. It leads the Unknown Adventurer and his companion Bibi into a search for this 'last river' that will change their understanding of nature forever" -- Amazon.
4) Jaguar
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve in Brazil, fourteen-year-old Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters.
5) Green thumb
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 6
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
430L
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
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them--and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated "River of Doubt" journey in 1913-14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star...
