Sea Turtle Scientist
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 65 pages : illustrations, chiefly color, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Explores the leatherback sea turtle's natural history and recounts the efforts being made by scientists trying to save them.
Series: Scientists in the field.
Contents:
One in a thousand -- Meet the leatherback sea turtle -- Las tortugas: a history of the sea turtle -- The man who hunted sea turtles -- Science is hands-and-knees work -- The journey of the hatchlings -- The mystery of hatchling turtles -- It takes a community to save a sea turtle -- Saving sea turtles.
Subjects:
Stewart, Kimberly -- Juvenile literature.
Sea turtles -- Juvenile literature.
Leatherback turtle -- Research -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Juvenile literature.
Leatherback turtle -- Research -- Juvenile literature.
Stewart, Kimberly -- Juvenile literature.
Sea turtles -- Juvenile literature.
Leatherback turtle -- Research -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Juvenile literature.
Leatherback turtle -- Research -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: NC1190L
ISBN:
9780547367552 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C ANIMALS Reptile Turtle Swi | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 6/7/2024) |
C ANIMALS Reptile Turtle Swi | North Main | Children's NonFiction | In |
C ANIMALS Reptile Turtle Swi | Northeast Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C ANIMALS Reptile Turtle Swi | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C ANIMALS Reptile Turtle Swi | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C ANIMALS Reptile Turtle Swi | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C ANIMALS Reptile Turtle Swi | Southeast | Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63) and index.
Stephen Swinburne was born in London, England. He holds a BA degree in Biology and English from Castleton State College in Vermont. He has worked as a ranger in a number of national parks and is the author of over 25 children's books. His extensive travels to faraway lands such as Africa and treks through Yellowstone have all influenced his book projects.
A Junior Library Guild selection
Stephen Swinburne was born in London, England. He holds a BA degree in Biology and English from Castleton State College in Vermont. He has worked as a ranger in a number of national parks and is the author of over 25 children's books. His extensive travels to faraway lands such as Africa and treks through Yellowstone have all influenced his book projects.
A Junior Library Guild selection