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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While in Machu Picchu, Peru, with their parents, eight-year-old twins Ethan and Ella cross a secret bridge and discover a mysterious stone sculpture.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 34
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama" -- Provided by publisher.
5) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
161 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Paulina gets a phone call from home telling her that a friend is missing, the Thea Sisters travel to Peru to help solve the mystery. There, the five mice climb the Andes Mountains in search of a missing archaeologist. Along the way, they stumble upon clues leading them to a mysterious hidden city. Will the Thea Sisters find Paulina's friend, and the treasure of the Secret City?" -- P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mountains of Peru, friends Hector the bear and Hummingbird the hummingbird spend most of their time together, doing the same things, and Hector has had just about enough of it--or has he? Includes a list of animals hidden in the illustrations.
11) Useful fools
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old Peruvian boy, whose mother runs a clinic for poor village children, becomes caught up in the war after Senderistas bomb the clinic, killing his mother and throwing his family into turmoil.
Author
Series
Addison Cooke volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first.
14) Son of fortune
Author
Series
Aiden Lynch volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of its Chinese workers.
Author
Series
Island of thieves volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
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