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Where Is the Amazon?

Name: Where Is the Amazon?
ISBN: 9780448488264

Paperback – Illustrated, May 24, 2016

Sarah Fabiny

Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · May 24, 2016

Reading lane: Geography for Kids

Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title.

Protecting the Planet Geography for Kids Ecosystems & Environment science

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Rainforest Scale

Explore the Amazon as a vast living system, full of beauty, danger, and planetary importance.

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A sense of the Amazon basin’s extraordinary scale
The mingling of geographic wonder and ecological stakes

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A look at the rainforest’s abundant plant and animal life
A reminder that this vast ecosystem supports life beyond its banks

Book Details

Authors: Sarah Fabiny
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: May 24, 2016
Format: Paperback
Theme: Geography for Kids · Ecosystems & Environment
Reading lane: Geography for Kids

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Illness & Injury
Caribbean & Latin America
Ecosystems & Environment

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Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.