In this adventure a group of seventh and eighth graders travel down the Amazon to a camp in the rain forests of Peru. During their two-week field trip, they learn to live in the wilderness, meet local school children and Amazonian Indian groups, and discover that there are no easy answers to the problems of the rain forests. Full-color photos.
Susan E. Goodman is the author of more than thirty nonfiction books for children, including How Do You Burp in Space?; See How They Run: Campaign Dreams, Election Schemes, and the Race to the White House;All in Just One Cookie, an ALA Notable Book; and On This Spot, a Washington Post Top Picture Book of the Year. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.