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    Where Is the Amazon?
    Where Is the Amazon?
    Where Is the Amazon?
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    Where Is the Amazon?

    By Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ and Daniel Colon

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    Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title.

    Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9780451532756
    Where Is the Amazon?
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    Sarah Fabiny

    Sarah Fabiny is the Editor-in-Chief of series and licensed books at Grosset & Dunlap and the author of Who Was Frida Kahlo?

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      Where Is the Amazon? - Sarah Fabiny

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      For Mary Kay Bissell, who encouraged me to discover the world

      —SF

      To my family in Puerto Rico, who showed me the beauty of El Yunque

      —DC

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

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      Text copyright © 2016 by Sarah Fabiny. Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. Who HQ™ and all related logos are trademarks owned by Penguin Random House LLC. GROSSET & DUNLAP is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.

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      ISBN 9780448488264 (paperback)

      ISBN 9780399542336 (library binding)

      ISBN 9780451532756 (eBook)

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Copyright

      Where Is the Amazon?

      The River Changes Course

      First Settlers

      Search for the City of Gold

      More Discoveries

      The People of the Amazon

      Layers of a Rain Forest

      Incredible Creatures

      Protecting the Forest

      A Trip down the Amazon

      Timelines

      Bibliography

      Map

      Images

      Where Is the Amazon?

      On August 26, 1542, Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish explorer, and his crew finally arrived at the Atlantic Ocean. They had been sailing down a mighty river in South America. The journey had lasted more than two hundred days. The river and the surrounding landscape were like nothing they had ever come across. The river was so wide that they could not see across it in places. And the creatures swinging in the trees, splashing in the water, and flying through the sky were not like the creatures in Spain.

      When Orellana and his men arrived back in Spain, Orellana told stories about their incredible journey to anyone who would listen. And it was no wonder why—the river that Orellana and his men had traveled down was the Amazon. And the surrounding landscape was the Amazon rain forest.

      The Amazon is truly one of the natural wonders of the planet. Although not the longest river in the world, it carries more water than the Nile, the Mississippi, and the Yangtze combined. The river has

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