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"Tayler Hale is ahead of her time as one of the first women naturalists. She has always loved adventure and the great outdoors, and her remote job location also helps keep her away from the clutches of the man to whom she once made a foolish promise. It seems she must keep running, however, and in secret, her boss from Yellowstone arranges for a new job...in Alaska. The popular Curry Hotel continues to thrive in 1929 as more visitors come to Alaska...
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Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Chronicles the scientists life and career as he sought to name every plant and animal on Earth, and describes how he developed a system of classifying these names that inspired generations of scientists.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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A radical reappraisal of Darwin argues that the evolution pioneer was less of an original scientific intellect than a ruthless self-promoter who did not give credit to the actual sages whose ideas he advanced in his history-shaping book.
9) Naturalist
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Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Edward O. Wilson-winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University-is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet his celebrated career began not with an elite education but from an insatiable curiosity about the natural world and drive to explore its mysteries. Called "one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written" by the Los Angeles Times, Naturalist is a wise and...
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English
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David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent more than a thousand...
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Rb Flash Point, Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Follows Charles Darwin on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle and presents the thinking that led him to the theory of evolution and the writing of The origin of the species. Includes historical photographs and passages from Darwin's personal diary.
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St. Lynn's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Mike is one of America's most acclaimed foragers and wild food educators, a living encyclopedia of all things wild and edible. A Forager's Life is about a life spent in nature and in the classroom - from the thousands of wild edible forays with adults and young people, to the legendary Euell Gibbons and the first Earth Day, to the rise of today's great foraging wave, a wave that is bringing city folks and country folks together in search of that...
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Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate learns about love from the older three of her six brothers and studies the natural world with her grandfather which leads to an important discovery.
17) A fine line
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Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
18) Double blind
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A dramatic and powerful novel reflecting on nature, nurture, inquiry, perception, and the myriad ways we try to understand what it means to be alive"--
London. Olivia's connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off the grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve her friend Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two-- but Lucy has received shocking news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow...
19) Washington Black
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English
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Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time. A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz...
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