Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history of the troubled relationship between wolves and humans, examines the view that these predators are a valuable part of the ecosystem, and describes the conservation movement to restore them to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how the wildlife detectives at the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, analyze clues to catch and convict people responsible for crimes against animals.
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Anthropologist: scientist of the people
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Swimming with hammerhead sharks
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Looking for life in the universe: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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Project UltraSwan
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The woods scientist
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mountain gorillas are one of the most endangered species in the world. Now they are facing a new threat, from the very tourism that is helping to protect them: exposure to human disease. This is the story of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project and its work to provide medical care to the gorillas.
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The prairie builders: reconstructing America's lost grasslands
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Diving to a deep-sea volcano
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Emi and the rhino scientist: saving species from extinction
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With their numbers diminishing, scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings. Why would the world's largest mammal do something that would most likely cause it to die? Around the world, scientists are trying to find the answer.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book explains what invasive species are and the damage they cause to local ecosystems and economies and discusses how scientists are working to combat these encroaching organisms.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Extreme scientists battle some of the Earth's most intense conditions, from hurricanes to caves to the crowns of towering redwoods, in order to save lives, preserve species, and help us to better understand the way our planet works.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A pale, spotted, almost cloud-like coat makes the snow leopard uncannily invisible in its rocky mountain habitat. Author Sy Montgomery and photographer Nic Bishop accompany conservationist Tom McCarthy and his team as they travel to Mongolia's Altai Mountains to gather data about snow leopard populations in an attempt to save this endangered species.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
John Craighead George is an Arctic whale scientist studying bowhead whales in Barrow, Alaska. He conducts his research in harmony with the cultural traditions of the Iñupiaq Eskimos, natives to the area, who have been hunting these whales for more than two thousand years.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
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.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
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.
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Project seahorse
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, an American scientist, and witness one of nature's largest, most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
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.
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The polar bear scientists
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A scientific journey to study the dolphins of coastal Australia considers the many potential sources of dolphin intelligence and what dolphin behavior can inform the scientific community about human intelligence, captive animals and the future of the oceans.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the leatherback sea turtle's natural history and recounts the extraordinary efforts by scientists trying to save them, focusing on Dr. Kimberly Stewart, known locally as the turtle lady.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In The Spider Silk Scientists, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins to spin spider silk--and to weave a nearly indestructible fiber. Learn how this amazing material might someday be used to repair or replace human ligaments and bones, improve body armor, strenghten parachute rope, and even tether an airplane to an aircraft carrier!...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Follows the extensive efforts of Pati Medici and her scientific team to study Brazil's mysterious lowland tapir and protect it from extinction.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book about the tree-killing Asian longhorned beetle reveals how the help of everyday people, their neighborhoods, teams of beetle-sniffing dogs, and a nationwide effort from bug scientists to tree doctors are working to eradicate this invasive pest.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the cheetah's essential role in the ecosystem and the ways in which Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund is promoting cohabitation between cheetahs and farmers.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A stunning addition to the Scientists in the Field series that explores mercury pollution found in the rivers and streams of Western Montana that might cause harm to humans--and the extinction of the entire osprey species."--
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In the 1990s, scientists lived inside Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is the Earth itself) for two years, trying to figure out if colonizing Mars would ever be possible. Now scientists don't live there but instead conduct all sorts of studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and especially understand what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change and other man-made problems. It's a unique take on the Scientists...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In the newest addition to the ever-popular and authoritative nonfiction Scientists in the Field series, the team behindThe Frog Scientist take you on a research trip to New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean to follow crows in aviaries and in the wild while answering many thought-provoking questions like: "Can a crow outsmart a scientist?" Remarkably engaging narrative nonfiction coupled with beautiful photographs, this is a trip you won't regret booking!"--...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The Great White Shark Scientist is the latest ocean adventure from the venerable team of Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen. In it, they follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep." --
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Mission to Pluto: the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt
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Amazon adventure: how tiny fish are saving the world's largest rainforest
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Eye of the storm: NASA, drones, and the race to crack the hurricane code
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
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."--
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Life on Surtsey, Iceland's upstart island
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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
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...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Travel to the African bush with Sibert medal winning team Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop in this myth-busting new addition to the Scientists in the Field series as they join the internationally acclaimed woman researcher conducting one of the longest and most important studies of African mammals in the history of science."--
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The orca scientists
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Eclipse chaser: science in the Moon's shadow
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Saving the Tasmanian devil: how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive
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The tornado scientist: seeing inside severe storms
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The big one: the Cascadia earthquakes and the science of saving lives
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59) Condor comeback
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The National Book Award Honor-winning author of "How to Be a Good Creature" documents the story of California's wild condors and how diligent scientists, volunteers and citizens have worked to save the species from extinction.