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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"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."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Follow a team of scientists as they 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?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Provides an introduction to the kakapo parrot, a flightless bird found on Codfish Island off the coast of New Zealand, and looks at how the country's National Kakapo Recovery Team is working to save the kakapos, whose population numbers less than one hundred.
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Series
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.
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Series
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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Series
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 three months and sending back invaluable images of the environmentally hostile planet.
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Series
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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Series
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.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This title in the Scientists in the Field series introduces young readers to one of the weirdest and most fascinating animals on the planet and recounts the extraordinary work of the dedicated scientists trying to save them. Full color.
If you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil's vast Pantanal haven't seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either! Join a tapir-finding expedition...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 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.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Without honeybees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat.
So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburgs horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees became the first casualties of a mysterious scourge that continues to plague honey bee populations today. In The Hive Detectives, Loree Griffin Burns profiles...
15) Condor Comeback
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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,...
16) Project seahorse
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the work performed by the founders of Project Seahorse, along with Filipino colleagues and fishers, to protect seahorses and the coral reefs where they live while also helping the local fishing families.
Author
Series
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 and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Considered the "lungs of the world," the Amazon provides a full fifth of the world's oxygen, and every year unsustainable human practices destroy 2.7 million acres. What can be done to help? That's where Project Piaba comes in.
Join the award-winning author Sy Montgomery and the photographer Keith Ellenbogen as they traverse the river and rainforest to discover how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve the Amazon, its animals, and the rich...
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English
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With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It's baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers-suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster...
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