Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.

Princess Isabella must save a baby monkey trapped in the rain forest by treasure hunters.

The Aldens are off to the rain forests of Sumatra, where a protected piece of land is home to endangered animals such as orangutans, elephants, and tigers, but when part of the forest is cut down, they have to figure out who is responsible.

The Amazon is a fascinating place, full of wonders, and the Rio Negro is one of the most mysterious and beautiful river in the world -- a strange place where pink dolphins play and death can strike without warning.

Lost in an Australian rainforest, Andrew, Judy, and Thudd the robot, who are still the size of insects, must evade rhinoceros beetles, tarantulas, flesh-eating plants, and a host of other threats as they make their way toward the village where Uncle Al will meet them.

"Lily the Rain forest Fairy whisks the girls away to a tropical forest to find her wand. Lily needs her wand to save the rainforest-and to get Rachel and Kirsty home safe again"--Amazon.com.

Inspired by Caribbean folklore, eighteen-year-old Selena gets pulled into a string of mysterious murders on her island home.

"The reader is invited to blaze a trail through this forest of symbols. The last chapter will shed light on the profound meaning of the fable. But the point is less to capture than to be captivated by the energy, the luxuriance, and the playful solemnity of writing that masterfully melds French, Creole, and yet other voices as well."--L'Express. From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptional and...