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Zahrah escapes from home with the digibook and her compass to the forbidden greeny jungle in order to obtain an Elgort egg. She meets the annoying shining pink frog and others who advise her to go back home. While in the jungle, Zahrah discovers that the chapter in the digibook containing information
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During one of their secret trips to the greeny jungle to practice and explore with the aid of a digibook written by explorers, Dari is bitten by a snake and falls into a deep coma. The doctor prescribes a serum made from an unfertilized Elgort (a huge dinosaur-like creature) egg as the only cure for
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is a 13-year-old girl. The kids at school taunt Zahrah for being a witch who doesn't deserve the popular Dari because of her dada, and she is desperate to get the unfertilized Elgort egg to cure her friend Dari. She is shy and quiet, and learns to take responsibility while in the forbidden Greeny
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234:: Dari is Zarah's only friend and a popular kid at school. He is brave and curious to explore the forbidden green jungle after reading a digibook about it. However, he is later bitten by a snake and falls into a deep coma, only to be awakened after receiving the Elgort Serum.
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