Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)
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Once a wolf: how wildlife biologists fought to bring back the gray wolf
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The wildlife detectives: how forensic scientists fight crimes against nature
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Anthropologist: scientist of the people
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Hidden worlds: looking through a scientist's microscope
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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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The prairie builders: reconstructing America's lost grasslands
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Diving to a deep-sea volcano
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Quest for the tree kangaroo: an expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
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Emi and the rhino scientist: saving species from extinction
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Tracking trash: flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion
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The whale scientists: solving the mystery of whale strandings
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Extreme scientists: exploring nature's mysteries from perilous places
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Saving the ghost of the mountain: an expedition among snow leopards in Mongolia
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Whaling season: a year in the life of an arctic whale scientist
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
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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The hive detectives: chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe
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Kakapo rescue: saving the world's strangest parrot
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Project seahorse
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The elephant scientist
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The manatee scientists: saving vulnerable species
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The mighty Mars rovers: the incredible adventures of spirit and opportunity
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The polar bear scientists
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Stronger than steel: spider DNA and the quest for better bulletproof vests, sutures, and parachute rope
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The wild horse scientists
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Inside Biosphere 2: earth science under glass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
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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Impact!: asteroids and the science of saving the world
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this addition to the Scientists in the Field series, readers join scientists as they tackle something unusual in the world of ecosystems: colonization. Not a colonization by people, but one of cells, seeds, spores, and other life forms that blow in, fly in, float in, and struggle to survive on the beautiful but harsh new island of Surtsey.
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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 the authors 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.
56) Saving the Tasmanian devil: how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully eradicate certain genetic diseases.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Profiles scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team as they try to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland.
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