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Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before Eugenie Clark's groundbreaking research, most people thought sharks were vicious, blood-thirsty killers. From the first time she saw a shark in an aquarium, Japanese-American Eugenie was enthralled. Instead of frightening and ferocious eating machines, she saw sleek, graceful fish gliding through the water. After she became a scientist-- unexpected career path for a woman in the 1940s--e began taking research dives and training sharks, earning...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dive to the depths with . . . MARINE BIOLOGISTS. Discover a new kind of sea creature! Save a whale from a fishing net! Swim with the dolphins, seals, and sea lions! Marine biologists simply can't do their work cooped up in a lab-they need to be out in the ocean, diving among the creatures they study. Inside, meet some world experts in marine biology and find out why they love their adventure-filled jobs. Every book in the SCIENTISTS IN ACTION! series...
Author
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Follow the remarkable journey of Jeanne Villepreux-Power from her childhood in a small French village to her life as a naturalist in nineteenth-century Messina, Sicily, where she conducted groundbreaking research and invented aquariums".--
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Publisher Annotation: The daughter of a seamstress and a cobbler, Jeanne Villepreux-Power began her career as a dressmaker, sewing beautiful gowns for the Parisian aristocracy. But her heart longed for more, and when she moved to the seaside, she became fascinated by the ocean's mysteries. She filled her pockets with seashells and specimens, and filled her notebooks with oservations about coral and crustaceans and all manner of marine life. The argonaut...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pagesss. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of this groundbreaking marine biologist and diver, from her childhood in New Jersey and Florida to her deep sea explorations of the 1980s and 1990s.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Simon Spotlight ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Do you love dolphins and the ocean? Then you could be a marine biologist, an aquatic veterinarian, a marine archaeologist, and more when you grow up! Find out all about it in this book!"--Back cover.
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