Book Summary
Adventure on the Amazon River is a fictional story about a girl named Cammy who is traveling up the Amazon River on a large boat with her parents. She is not enjoying the trip until, one morning, something happens. As she looks over the side of the boat, she falls into the river. She is rescued by a small boy in a canoe who takes her deep into the rainforest to where his family lives. Cammy stays with the family until the boy teaches her how to paddle a canoe. Eventually reunited with her father, she has a much-altered perspective on her Amazon adventure.

Vocabulary
caiman
canopy
diagonal
distrustfully
exotic
foreign
fuchsia
frantically
journal
machete
makeshift
malaria
manioc
nook
proximity
toucan
tributary

Reproducible Worksheets
Worksheet 1 - cause and effect
Worksheet 2 - imagery, onomatopoeia, similes

Lesson Objectives