- Rain forests, Indians of South America, Fiction, Environmental protection
While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Rob Thomas
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 186
- Publisher
- Aladdin Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689817809
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 6 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Magic's child 200788% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Shadow forest 200788% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, contemporary.
The girl who could fly 200887% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Thunder Valley 199786% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, contemporary.
The forbidden library 201486% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Curse of the Ruins 199886% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
The warrior heir 200686% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
The Gathering 201185% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Inbetween Land 201586% alikeGame · Both earnest, contemporary, grave.
Shapik: The Quest 202285% alikeGame · Both earnest, classical in form, grave.