Title: Green Thumb
First published: 1999
Description: 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.
Subjects: Rain forests, Indians of South America, Fiction, Environmental protection, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Children's fiction, Rain forests, fiction, Environmental protection, fiction, Indians of south america, fiction, Brazil, fiction
Places: Brazil, Amazon River Valley