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Author
Publisher
Harper
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Researcher Marina Singh is sent by her boss at Vogel, a drug manufacturer, to the jungles of Brazil following the death of a co-worker. It is there that the company is looking into a miracle drug based on a tree bark used by a native tribe. Upon her arrival, Marina must find out the circumstances of her colleague's death, as well as find out why work has slowed to a crawl on the drug. That means dealing with Annick Swenson, a determined researcher...
2) Outlaw
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A father and his son leave Atlanta for Australia and find themselves taken as slaves by a savage, unknown jungle tribe.
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 16
Language
English
Description
"It begins in Africa . . .A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them plants and animals has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle known to...
4) Lost!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ancient myth about a statue leads eleven-year-old Carter and twelve-year-old Anna down a trail deep into the Costa Rican jungle. They get turned around, then chased by howler monkeys. Carter and Anna try to find their way back to the familiar path, but the tangle of vines and trees all look the same. They are . . . lost!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tarzan of the Apes is a coming of age story of John Clayton, the son of an English couple who are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. His father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, and his mother dies of natural causes. At one year old, Clayton is adopted by the she-ape Kala and renamed Tarzan, or "white-skin" in the ape language.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Who lives in the rain forest? Shine a light behind the page and see. Explore a rain forest habitat up close and you will find a world filled with great surprises.
Language
English
Description
The gang is back, but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world2s most dangerous game.
10) The predator
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter, and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.
11) Jungle Cruise
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Come along on a rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton. Lily travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank's questionable services to guide her downriver on La Quila, his ramshackle-but-charming boat. Lily is determined to uncover an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities, possessing the power to change the future of medicine. Thrust on...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
32 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Far, far away live two bananas. Early one morning, they decide to search the jungle. What are they looking for? What could go wrong?
Join them as they explore, and discover that the jungle is full of surprises.
13) Freelance
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each other to make it out alive!