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**//Collins Australian School dictionary//** **(2nd ed.). (1999). Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers.** This dictionary is made specifically for students your age and explains what words mean in a simple way. You can use this to look up unknown words in your research task when you are defining what you need to do. You can also use it to look up the meaning of unknown words you come across during your research. Remember, the words are listed in alphabetical order.

**Turnbull, S., & Helbrough, E. (Ed.). (2005). //The Usborne Internet-Linked Children’s World Atlas.// London: Usborne Publishing.** Provides a good introduction to rainforests of the world. It shows rainforest areas of countries using different shades of green. This will give you some ideas of where rainforests are you could research to find more specific examples of problems rainforests face. It even includes information on some rainforests such as the Amazon. It also contains explains what words mean that you may come across during your research such as equator and how to read the maps.