Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Montgomery, Sy.

Title:

Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.

Publisher, Date:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.

Description:

74 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm

Summary:

Follows the scientists and volunteers of the Kakapo Recovery Team as they work to restore the kakapo population on Codfish Island, a remote island off the southern coast of New Zealand. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondary.

Target Audience Note:

950L Lexile

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

Series:

Scientists in the field

Scientists in the field.

Subjects:

New Zealand. Kakapo Recovery Team.

Kakapo -- Conservation -- New Zealand -- Codfish Island -- Juvenile literature.

Kakapo -- New Zealand -- Juvenile literature.

Rare birds -- New Zealand -- Juvenile literature.

Other Author:

Bishop, Nic, 1955- photographer.

Other Title:

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2011.

Notes:

Phographs by New Zealand photographer.

Includes bibliographical references (page 73) and index.

Accelerated Reader MG 6.4 3.0 136550.

Accelerated Reader AR 6.4 3.0.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.4 3.0 136550EN.

Robert F. Sibert Medal, 2011.

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, 2011

ALA Notable Books for Children, 2011.

Horn Book Fanfare, 2010.

Contents:

The strangest parrot in the world -- The extinction that almost happened -- An island a world apart -- Secrets of the nest -- Life at "Sealer's Bay Resort & Spa" -- Triangulation and tragedy -- Flossie's wardrobe change -- Feedout vollies -- Hatch watch -- Blessing at Cyndy's Lookout.

Web Site:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

2009045250

ISBN:

9780329859572

0329859579

9780618494170

0618494170

Other Number:

441151975