TY - BOOK AU - Clarke,Ginjer L. TI - What's up in the Amazon rainforest T2 - What's up in SN - 9780448481036 (pbk) PY - 2015///] CY - New York, New York PB - Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House KW - Rain forests KW - Amazon River Region KW - Juvenile literature KW - Rain forest ecology KW - Habitat conservation KW - Endangered species N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 140) and index; Introduction -- What Is the Amazon Rainforest? -- The Amazon River -- The Rainforest Floor -- The Understory -- The Canopy -- The Emergent Trees -- Who Are the People of the Amazon Rainforest? -- How Can We Save the Amazon Rainforest? --- Bibliography -- Index -- Credits; What is the Amazon rainforest? -- The Amazon river -- The rainforest floor -- The understory -- The canopy -- The emergent trees -- Who are the people of the Amazon rainforest? -- What do we get from the Amazon rainforest? -- How can we save the Amazon rainforest?; Ages 8-12 N2 - "Where in the world will you find 427 different types of mammals, 1,294 birds, 2,200 fishes, 378 reptiles, 428 amphibians, and about 1 million insects? The Amazon Rainforest, of course! Get lost in the largest rainforest in the world to climb trees that are 500 years old, swim with a pink dolphin, avoid the deadly poison dart frogs, and sleep with a troop of twenty howler monkeys. In What's Up in the Amazon Rainforest, you'll learn all about the plants and animals, as well as the people that live there and the habitat itself."-- ER -