Catalog Search Results
1) The jungle
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sundew's mission is to destroy the HiveWings in revenge for nearly wiping out the LeafWings and stealing all the trees from Pantala. The remaining LeafWings are hiding in the few trees that are left in the deadly Poison Jungle. They needs someone like Sundew who can bring down the Hives. However, when their plans are set into motion and war begins, they discover that the jungle is keeping dark secrets, one of which has the power to destroy them all....
3) The jungle
Author
Language
English
Description
Jungles come in many forms, and to pull off their latest mission, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive them all: a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth century China, a daring rescue along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar. All these events will lead to the greatest threat against U.S. security every known.
5) Horizon
Author
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
Author
Language
English
Description
Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by 'Hellboy' artist Mike Mignola. 'Heart of Darkness' is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery...
12) Beasts of prey
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon forge an unusual alliance and venture into the Greater Jungle to hunt down a monster that has been menacing their city for a century. Includes author's note.
14) The Inquisition
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fletcher is put on trial by the Inquisition where he discovers his tragic origins, then is sent by the king into the Orc jungles where he and loyal friends Othello and Sylva must battle their way to the heart of Orcdom and save Hominum from destruction.
16) Final target
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an relatively routine mission, ends in an ambush, Jonathan Grave must take refuge in a remote orphanage and then lead its children to safety through a hundred miles of treacherous jungle. --Publisher
Author
Language
English
Description
On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to that island, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Taking place between 1993 and 2018 in Colombia and New York City, The Lucky Ones is a prismatic tale of a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways and whose stories, taken together, provide a lens on the intensity of life in Colombia during the violent years of guerrilla insurgencies and corruption. A teenager hides alone in her family's mansion until she hears a knock at the door...her teacher is kidnapped by guerrillas...
19) Deadzone
Author
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
20) Curious George
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this, the original book about the curious monkey, George is taken from the jungle by the man in the yellow hat. and the newly-captured monkey gets him into continual trouble.