Green Thumb

By Rob Thomas

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

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.