title: Rain Forest: With Magnifying Glass (Nature Search)
author: Paul Sterry
description: With these "hands-on guides for nature sleuths," maturing Where's Waldo? fans can finally get down and get serious. Conveniently impocketed in each book's cover, a magnifying glass prods reluctant readers to rub noses with the grotesque and the beautiful, the commonplace and the strange. Finely detailed and compressed watercolor illustrations conceal certain animals and plants among the large, more obvious inhabitants of a distinct ecological system. Within the tiers of a rain forest and by the waters of the Sargasso Sea, the Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos Islands, hidden life will come into focus as youngsters learn to wield the eyeglass up and down over leaves and seaweed, forest debris and coral. Each double-page spread includes textual and illustrated information to guide readers into close-up investigations far more challenging than most "find-the-hidden-object" books. Younger or impatient readers may be encouraged by the answer guides and glossaries. Both books can effectively teach observation skills such as noticing, focusing and examining to groups or individual readers. However, Underwater appears more cohesive and less daunting than Rain Forest. Ages 7-12. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Renegades of Time by Raymond F. Jones
  
  
  ## I
  
  
  Joe Simmons was lying on his back in a puddle of rainwater. His
  
  
  vision of the sky was limited by tiers of foliage that ranged up and
  
  
  beyond any tree height he had ever known. Beyond his feet a monstrous,
  
  
  twisted palm tree seemed to rise forever. Its sharp sword fronds
  
  
  mingled with branches of adjacent trees that bore leaves of red and
  
  
  silver. These spread in massive sheets to the sky, and occasionally,
  
  
  when their load of rainwater was more than they could bear, they
  
  
  twisted gently and dumped gallons of water with an enormous splash from
  
  
  their hundred-foot heights.
  
  
  He raised on his elbows and turned his head to try to bring some
  
  
  familiar object within his vision. There was nothing. The rain itself
  
  
  had a sharp sting that felt as if it were on the edge of ice, but the
  
  
  air and the trees were