The Frog Scientist
10 best books like The Frog Scientist (Pamela S. Turner): Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe, Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Stronger Than Steel: Spider Silk DNA and the Quest for Better Bulletproof Vests, Sutures, and Parachute Rope
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 0822571358 |
Bright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examining the fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen years...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374304688 |
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
A discovery that made the world a brighter place!
Joe and Bob Switzer were very different brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up to be a doctor. Joe dreamed of making his fortune in show business and loved magic tricks and problem-solving.
When an accident left Bob...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0618494170 |
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.
Now, on an island refuge with...
| Author | Thomas F. Yezerski |
| ISBN | 0374349134 |
The 20,000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as the Meadowlands were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. But in the four hundred years since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands, people have dammed up, drained, built over, and polluted this formerly vibrant...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670011894 |
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0547152310 |
Without honey bees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg’s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees...
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0618966366 |
Caldecott Honor–winning Steve Jenkins provides a top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.
Half the earth’s surface is covered by water more than a mile deep, but most of this watery world is a mystery to us. In fact, more people have stood on the surface...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0763636118 |
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But...
| Author | Bridget Heos |
| ISBN | 0547681267 |
In The Spider Silk Scientists, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders, as their silk is combined with goat's milk to weave a nearly indestructible fiber.
Learn how this amazing material can be used to repair or replace...
| Author | David M. Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1582462070 |
Ten creatures await, camouflaged in artful, full-page photographs, while playful poems offer clues about each animal's identity and whereabouts. Think you've spotted one? Lift one of ten gatefolds to find out. A full page of fascinating information accompanies each animal so readers can learn...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344311 |
"Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth." So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat...
| Author | Sandra Markle |
| ISBN | 0761351086 |
Panamanian golden frogs aren't just cute, little, and yellow. They're also the national symbol of Panama. But they started to disappear about fifteen years ago. What's killing them? Could it be a change in their habitat? What about pollution? Might it be a result of climate change? Follow a team of scientists...
| Author | Caitlin O'Connell |
| ISBN | 0547053444 |
In the sprawling African scrub desert of Etosha National Park, they call her “the mother of all elephants.” Holding binoculars closely to her eyes, American scientist Caitlin O’Connell could not believe what she was seeing from these African elephants: as the mighty matriarch scanned the...
| Author | Rick Bowers |
| ISBN | 1426305958 |
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history.
Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426306008 |
What are the secrets of the ancient stone circle? Were the carefully placed stones a burial site, an ancient calendar, a place of Druid worship...or even a site of sacrifice? World-renowned archaeologist Mike Parker-Pearson has spent the last seven years on a quest to answer these and many other questions....
| Author | Mary Kay Carson |
| ISBN | 0547199562 |
Dr. Merlin Tuttle and his colleagues at Bat Conservation International aren't scared of bats. These bat crusaders are fascinated by them, with good reason. Bats fly the night skies in nearly every part of the world, but they are the least studied of all mammals. As the major predator of night-flying...
Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators
| Author | Jim Arnosky |
| ISBN | 1402756615 |
Acclaimed naturalist and illustrator Jim Arnosky helps birds and imaginations take glorious flight in this breathtaking nonfiction picture book with six giant gatefolds.
Arnosky will draw out kids' inner explorer as he explains why there are no feathers on a vulture's head, which bird is the...
Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
| Author | Andrew Chaikin |
| ISBN | 0670011568 |
July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our history? The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin (author of A Man on the Moon, basis of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon), recounts...
