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1) The umbrella
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Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella.
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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.
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"Danger escalates as Michael Knight and Lex Devlin enter into the defense of a Puerto Rican jockey charged with felony murder as a result of a fixed race at Boston's Suffolk Downs. As their investigation exposes the jockey's role, they become embroiled in a conflict between two Puerto Rican crime gangs. One of these gangs is aligned for the first time with Boston's Italian Mafia. They are tapping into almost limitless profits from the illicit trace...
4) Rainforest
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This volume is the result of Thomas Marent's 16-year journey across five continents. It celebrates the fascinating behaviour and variety of rainforest animals and plants - from resourceful leaf-clutter ants to the multi-hued clouds of butterflies and birds that flutter high in the tree tops.
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The newly hatched baby sea turtles need moonlight to find their way back to the ocean, but when Luna breaks apart, Diego and Tuga the Leatherback Sea Turtle need your help to find the moon's four pieces so she can shine bright again. Puma wants to sing in Alicia's rainforest concert, wbut when he scares off the other animal singers, Diego and the Red-Eyed Tree Frogs need you help to find them all. Rhea feels bad because he's a bird that can't fly,...
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Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity-but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America's Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines,...
15) Tigre de Bengala
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"Bengal tigers are ... Asian animals that mainly live in India. Readers will find out where they can be found on a map, what Bengal tigers look like, what they eat, and a little about their young"--
17) The rain forest
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Introduces readers to the many kinds of animals and plants found in rain forests, and explains how man's activities can threaten these fragile ecosystems.
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"In Southern Asia's lush forests one remarkable group of trees cast their pervasive shadows over the extraordinary array of plants and animals living below. The equatorial rainforests of South East Asia are amongst the tallest and richest forests on earth towering up to 80 meters high. The canopy is dominated by a single family of forest giants called dipterocarps, which cast enormous influence on the huge diversity of plants and animals living in...
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A look at Odzala National Park in the Republic of Congo, one of the most isolated areas in Africa. A dense rain forest canopy shelters the steamy jungle underneath, occasionally giving way to island-like clearings called bais. Provides a rare opportunity to see elephants drink alongside families of lowland gorillas. See also water buffalo, cattle egrets, and other animals of this ecosystem.
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