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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 18 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"Nature gives us everything for free," says a Yanomami chief - "all that nature asks in return is that we protect it." In Children of the Land, Brazilian Indian leaders discuss their careful and sustainable use of the land. The forest provides indigenous people with food, medicine and supplies, and they know that they have to preserve these for future generations. This is reflected in their sustainable lifestyle; the Ashaninka calendar, for example,...
4) Relic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"In New York, there has been a rash of murders in the Museum of Natural History and the perpetrator turns out to be a monstrous reptile from South America. The beast strikes at a gala opening, and an FBI agent and a woman scientist race to capture it before it eats everyone in sight."-- When a team of archaeologists is savagely massacred in the Amazon Basin, all that survives are several boxes of relics and plant specimens. From boat to boat, from...
8) Machu Picchu
Author
Series
Publisher
Mikaya Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
46 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the Inca civilization and the construction of the city of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Quechuan boy sets out on his own to bring the rains back to his parched homeland and is rewarded by a gift of carob beans that come to be prized across Argentina.
10) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The secrets of the dead inspire the deadly intent of the living on the banks of the Amazon...
Deep in the Amazon jungle, a tribe holds the key to the truest form of dreaming—where the human spirit walks the petal-thin line between life and death. In an elaborate ceremony, the dreamer ingests a toxic brew, then submerges herself in an herbal bath that turns human skin a vivid shade of midnight-blue. And the experience changes the dreamer...
Deep in the Amazon jungle, a tribe holds the key to the truest form of dreaming—where the human spirit walks the petal-thin line between life and death. In an elaborate ceremony, the dreamer ingests a toxic brew, then submerges herself in an herbal bath that turns human skin a vivid shade of midnight-blue. And the experience changes the dreamer...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recent stunning discoveries are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished there for centuries. Dense settlements indicate populations in the millions, supported by sophisticated agricultural systems, while huge geometric earthworks and roadways bear witness to complex religious ideas and social networks.
Series
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
vi, 122 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated examination of the Native peoples of North and South America, featuring articles that trace human history back to early civilizations, and describing languages, religions, cultures, and other related topics.
Author
Publisher
Minedition
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A community of tiny fishermen called the Hairy Peruvians leaves home to escape the fierce Shining Spaniards, sails a teakettle across the ocean, and makes a new home in a faraway land.
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Language
English
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With a new introduction, the acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history's greatest adventures of discovery, a legendary 16th-century explorer's death-defying navigation of the Amazon-the first complete exploration of the world's largest river by a European.
In 1541, the brutal Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off in search of La Canela, South America's rumored...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award (2023) A stunningly illustrated fable about cultural humility and the transcendent power of stories. A young teacher sets out for the Amazon rain forest, eager to share geography, science, and math with the remote community of Las Delicias. The town's children love the books the young teacher brings, and yet they keep repeating legends about a great and dangerous serpent....
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