Green Thumb

By Rob Thomas

Subjects: Reading Level-Grade 8, Indians of South America, Rain forests, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 6, Environmental protection

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.