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Format:

Book

Author:

Hoose, Phillip M., 1947- author.

Title:

Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 / Phillip Hoose.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012.

Description:

148 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm

Summary:

Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline.

Target Audience Note:

1150L lexile

Sentence length: 5 (very hard) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile.

Subjects:

Red knot -- Migration -- Juvenile literature.

Red knot -- Juvenile literature.

Bird watching -- Juvenile literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index.

Accelerated Reader MG 7.9 5.0.

Reading Counts! 7.0.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Award Honor Book (2013); YALSA Award for Excelleing in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist (2013).

Contents:

Meet B95 -- Introduction -- Super bird (profile: Clive Minton) -- The Flight machine (profile: Patricia Gonzalez) -- Showdown at Delaware Bay (profile: Brian Harrington) -- Twinkling and trapping -- The Arctic breeding grounds (profile: Amanda Dey) -- Mingan: the bellwether site (profile: Guy Morrison and Ken Ross) -- Southbound: closing the circuit -- Extinction is forever (profile: Mike Hudson) -- Appendix : what you can do -- Source notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index.

LCCN:

2011035612

ISBN:

0374304688

9780374304683

Other Number:

747533437

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

333378

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

j 598.072 Hoose