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(0)Sy Montgomery
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English
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Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet’s rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy’s life continually intersects with and is informed by the creatures she meets. This restorative memoir reflects on the personalities and quirks...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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It looks like a bear, but isnt́ one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey -- but isnt́ a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but whatś a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschieś tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guineaś cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"Travel to the African bush with ... Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop in this ... 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"--
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English
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When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism.
While Temple's doctor recommended a hospital, her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead.
Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her world-changing career revolutionized the livestock industry. As an advocate for autism, Temple uses her experience
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English
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"When naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Endangered by cars and highways, pollution and poachers, these turtles--with wounds so severe that even veterinarians would have dismissed them as fatal--are given a second chance at life. The League's founders, Natasha and Alexxia, live by one motto: never give up on a turtle....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year: A “fascinating” photo-filled book on these amazing arachnids! (Booklist)
Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never...
Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, is investigating a controversial possibility: Might Cape Cod's waters serve as a breeding ground for the great white shark, the largest and most feared predatory fish on Earth?
Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen report on this thrilling turning point in marine research and travel to Guadeloupe, Mexico, to get up close and personal with the sharks. This daring expedition...
Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen report on this thrilling turning point in marine research and travel to Guadeloupe, Mexico, to get up close and personal with the sharks. This daring expedition...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Sibert medalist and National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery takes readers on a staggering, emotional journey alongside the greatest land migration on the planet earth—that of the wildebeest across the Serengeti—to explore the mystery and wonder of migration in a sweeping story sure to leave its mark. With full color photography.
Here is a riveting you-are-there account of one of nature's most fascinating occurrences:
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English
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"When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan's farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris's hawk with a wingspan of more than four feet. Not a pet, Jazz was a fierce predator with talons that could pierce skin and bone and yet, she was willing to work with a human to hunt. From the first moment Jazz swept down...
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English
Appears on list
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"For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery ... has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each chicken has an individual personality (outgoing or shy, loud or quiet, reckless or cautious) and connects with Sy in her own way. In this short ... book, Sy takes us inside the flock and reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they are able to walk, run, and peck; relationships are important...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
83 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hummingbirds are capable of incredible feats, such as flying backwards, diving at speeds of sixty-one MPH, and beating their wings more than sixty times a second. Miraculous creatures, they are also incredibly vulnerable when they first emerge from their eggs. That's where Brenda Sherburn comes in. She rescues abandoned hummingbirds and nurses them back to health until they can fly away and live in the wild.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xvii, 230 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the relationship between humans and tigers in the Sundarbans, the largest remaining track of mangrove forest in the world, where humans are often the prey of tigers.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This tribute to one of the most diverse, fascinating, and beloved species on the planet (turtles) speaks to the diversity and wisdom of these long-lived reptiles"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
228 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, author Montgomery was more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet, with no inkling that this piglet would not only survive but flourish--and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this traveler with something...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
vii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she’s a rock star. In these pages you’ll also meet Maya and Zuni, two orphaned baby hummingbirds who hatched from eggs the size of navy beans, and who are little more than air bubbles fringed with feathers. Their lives hang precariously in the balance—but with human...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
189 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.
This new book—written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus, along with Warren Carlyle, founder of Octonation, and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography—brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures.
The companion to the highly-anticipated National Geographic television special—narrated...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
65 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 legacy of its people. Amazon Adventure is an eye-opening exploration of how humanity?s practices are affecting and shaping not only the Amazon, but our entire environment.