Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands by Roy, Katherine

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781596438743)

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Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands by Roy, Katherine

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

$18.99
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands by Roy, Katherine

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

$18.99
Format: Hardcover
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A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Winner of the John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them-just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge!

A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals.

In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons-a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals.

This title has Common Core connections.

Author: Katherine Roy
ISBN-10: 1596438746
ISBN-13: 9781596438743
Publisher: David Macaulay Studio
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2014
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.70w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 169650 / Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

Award: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - Honor Book
Award: Rhode Island Children's Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 121
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2014 pg. 135
Booklist 09/01/2014 pg. 98
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2014
New York Times Book Review 11/09/2014 pg. 42
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2014
Kirkus Best Picture Books 11/15/2014 pg. 71
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/01/2014 pg. 56
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2014 pg. 28
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
By Katherine Roy
By Katherine Roy
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Katherine Roy is the award-winning author and illustrator of many science-based books for kids, including her Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands, How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild, and Making More: How Life Begins. She is also the illustrator of numerous other books, including Barb Rosenstock's Otis and Will Discover the Deep, Richard Ho's Red Rover, and Kirsten W Larson's The Fire of Stars. She lives with her husband and sons in western Oregon.
katherineroy.com

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