Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest and is genetically engineered to be immortal and be the future of the human race, but on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.
Describes the characteristics of rain forests, explains where the rain comes from, looks at rain forest plants and animals, and discusses why rain forests are endangered.
Andrew, Judy, and Thudd, still the size of bugs, try to help a stranded Arctic tern and end up in the Australian rain forest which poses all kinds of problems for the minuscule trio.
Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.
Relates the story of the Disney and Pixar movie, "Up," from the point of view of the young boy as he journeys through the jungles of South America with a seventy-eight-year-old balloon salesman.
In the late 1960s, sixteen-year-old Lam Hung guides an American platoon through South Vietnam, but seeing as how Lam was once a member of the Viet Cong, his job leading the men around the dangers hidden in the jungle might not be as difficult as earning the men's trust.
