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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
65 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Part science, part carnival--this winding adventure down the Amazon River with award-winning author Sy Montgomery and photographer Keith Ellenbogen explores how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve not only the rainforest and it's often misunderstood inhabitants, but the fate of our entire environment."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
89 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In April of 1987 the last wild California condor was captured and taken to live in captivity like the other twenty-six remaining birds of its kind. Many thought that the days were over of of this remarkable, distinguished bird that had roamed the skies of North and Central American for thousands of years. Sy Montgomery employs her skill for on-the-ground reporting, shrewd observation, and stunning narrative prose to detail the efforts of scientists,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On November 14, 1963, something exceptional happened in Iceland--and that's saying a lot. In a country where the average summer temperature is 50°F and the sun only appears for a few hours a day during the winter, an event has to be pretty unusual to stand out. The birth of the island of Surtsey, the newest earth on Earth, was just that. On that November day, a volcano fifteen miles offshore exploded under the sea, nearly six thousand years after...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the two robot vehicles, Spirit and Opportunity, that were sent to explore Mars, lasting far past their projected lives of 3 months and sending back invaluable images of the environmentally hostile planet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
1210L
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the work of two wildlife veterinarians who protect and chart the lives of Assateague Island's wild horses, describing their shared efforts to balance the horses' ecosystem and raise awareness.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the work of volcanologists Andy Lockhart, John Pallister, and their team describes their life-risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose threats to more than one billion people worldwide.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
73 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the ways in which technology is being used to study hurricanes in order to predict both the timing and strength of these storms, focusing on NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission (HS3) mission that uses drone technology.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014].
Lexile measure
NC 1190L
Physical Desc
xiv, 65 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kimberly Stewart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do: dig a nest in which she will lay eggs that will hatch into part of the next generation of leatherbacks. With only one in a thousand of the eggs for this critically endangered species resulting in an adult sea turtle,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book chronicles the efforts of Dr. Merlin Tuttle and his colleagues at Bat Conservation International, as they try and save bat species from loss of habitat and white-nose syndrome.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath birdeating tarantula.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's July on Alaska's North Slope, and scientist Denver Holt is in Utqiagvik surveying nests. Denver has been coming here since 1992, and the snowy owls he studies have been coming here much longer: thousands of years. With its mix of coastal, low-elevation tundra and a rich presence of lemmings, the North Slope is the only area in Alaska where snowy owls regularly nest. How do snowy owls decide where they will nest? How do they manage to arrive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
74 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
66 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join the scientists working in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge as they work to rebuild the tallgrass prairie that once covered much of the Midwest and restore the native plants and animals to the region.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
NC 1130L
Physical Desc
73 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"North Carolina's black bears were once a threatened species, but now their numbers are rising in and around Asheville. But what happens when conservation efforts for a species are so successful that there's a boom in the population? Can humans and bears live compatibly? What are the long-term effects for the bears? Author Amy Cherrix follows the scientists who, in cooperation with local citizen scientists, are trying to answer to these questions...