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Amazon adventure : how tiny fish are saving the world's largest rainforest
Publication Information
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
Physical Description
65 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Audience
Grade 4 to 6.
Summary
"Part science, part carnival--this winding adventure down the Amazon River with award-winning author Sy Montgomery and photographer Keith Ellenbogen explores how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve not only the rainforest and it's often misunderstood inhabitants, but the fate of our entire environment."--
Contents
- Little fishes, giant jungle
- Kingdom of the cardinals
- Scott's story
- Barcelos
- Festival of the fishes
- From fish morgue to fish spa
- Daracua.
Subjects
- Ecology > Amazon River Region > Juvenile literature.
- Ecology > Brazil > Rio Negro (Amazonas) > Juvenile literature.
- Biotic communities > Amazon River Region > Juvenile literature.
- Fishes > Brazil > Rio Negro (Amazonas) > Juvenile literature.
- Fishes > Amazon River > Juvenile literature.
- Amazon River > Juvenile literature.
- Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil) > Juvenile literature.
- Montgomery, Sy > Travel-Amazon River Region > Juvenile literature.