Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 x 29 cm
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
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
57 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through the lenses of powerful microscopes, Dennis Kunkel has examined objects most people have never even thought about: a mosquito"s foot, a crystal of sugar, a grain of pollen, the delicate hairs on a blade of grass. Hidden Worlds takes you behind the scenes of Dennis"s work and explains how he captures his remarkable images of microscopic life and objects.
6)
The bug scientists
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7)
Looking for life in the universe: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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8)
Project UltraSwan
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9)
The woods scientist
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
12)
The prairie builders: reconstructing America's lost grasslands
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16) Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series)
Author
Language
English
Description
Aided by an army of beachcombers, oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science. From sneakers to hockey gloves, Curt monitors the watery fate of human-made cargo that has spilled into the ocean. The information he collects is much more than casual news; it is important scientific data. And with careful analysis, Curt, along with a community of scientists, friends, and beachcombers alike, is using his data to understand and...
17)
The whale scientists: solving the mystery of whale strandings
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
60 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the birth and death of the bright exploding stars known as supernovae and their effects on science and the universe.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1110L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
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 Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
63 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Chiuldren/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the work of a scientist in Alaska who is studying the bowhead whale.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Follow bat scientists into the trenches - and caves - and experience the fight to save the beloved bats.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
74 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
27) Project seahorse
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
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The manatee scientists: saving vulnerable species
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the world there are probably fewer than 30 people who spend all or most of their effort working with polar bears. A veteran polar bear biologist, and the man in charge of Alaskan polar bear research for the past thirty years, Dr. Steven Amstrup has worked full time on polar bears since he joined the Polar Bear Project in 1980. The Polar Bear Project conducts ongoing research on polar bear populations and habitats in the Southern Beaufort Sea in...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
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 Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
xiv, 65 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the leatherback sea turtle's natural history and recounts the extraordinary efforts by scientists trying to save them.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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!...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1210L
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; cm.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the work of scientists in America's national parks, as they study geysers, grizzly bears, salamanders, cacti, and fireflies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
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!"--...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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." --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Part science, part carnival--this winding adventure down the Amazon River with award-winning author Sy Montgomery and photographer Keith Ellenbogen explores how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve not only the rainforest and it's often misunderstood inhabitants, but the fate of our entire environment."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ten million Americans live in hurricane danger zones, but how do we know if or when to evacuate? We must predict both when a storm will strike and how strong it will be. A daring NASA earth science mission may have finally found a way to crack this hurricane code.
Dr. Scott Braun is the principal investigator for the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission (HS3), which flies repurposed military drone over hurricanes so that scientists can gather...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Asteroids bombard our atmosphere all the time. Some are harmless, burning up in a flash of light. But others explode with a great sonic boom, smashing windows and throwing people to the ground. Worst of all, some asteroids strike our planet, blasting out massive craters and destroying everything nearby on impact.
Follow the award-winning author Elizabeth Rusch into the field with scientists as they search for dangerous asteroids in space, study asteroids...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
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."--
Author
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
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."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
From an acclaimed Scientists in the Field author comes the electrifying story of the scientists and engineers who are working to transform ocean waves into electricity in hopes of generating a cleaner, more sustainable power source.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Follow the scientists working in the Pacific Northwest to learn about the orca whale population there, as they race to save these remarkable mammals from extinction. Perfect for fans of The Great White Shark Scientist and readers looking for excellent nonfiction on this high-interest animal. Orcas have a reputation for being bloodthirsty, but that myth is being debunked as scientists learn more about these “killer" animals. Readers follow scientists...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The August 2017 solar eclipse is the chance of a lifetime for astronomer Shadia Habbal--years of planning come down to one moment of totality. Will everything go off as planned?"--
56) Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it's too late. 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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to save countless lives across America's heartland, chasing one tornado at a time.
Robin Tanamachi has been captivated by tornadoes and extreme weather her entire life. When she realized people researched weather for a job, she was hooked. She now studies tornado genesis, or how tornadoes form, and what causes them to get...
59) Condor Comeback
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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,...