Green Thumb
Rob Thomas. Illustrated by Lou Brooks
- 1st ed.
- New York Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1999.
- 186 p. 21 cm.
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.
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Rain forests--Fiction. Environmental protection--Fiction. Indians of South America--Fiction.--Brazil