The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
10 best books like The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (Phillip Hoose): Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival, The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe, Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, Celebritrees: Historic & Famous Trees of the World, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird, The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin, The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West, Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
| Author | Carl Safina |
| ISBN | 0805062297 |
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe
Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls...
| 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...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| Author | Ann Bausum |
| ISBN | 0670016799 |
That’s the Stonewall.
The Stonewall Inn.
Pay attention.
History walks through that door.
In 1969 being gay in the United States was a criminal offense. It meant living a closeted life or surviving on the fringes of society. People went to jail, lost jobs, and were disowned by...
| Author | Margi Preus |
| ISBN | 0805078290 |
Some trees have lived many lifetimes, standing as silent witnesses to history. Some are remarkable for their age and stature; others for their usefulness. A bristlecone pine tree in California has outlived man by almost 4,000 years; a baobab tree in Australia served as a prison for Aboriginal prisoners...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670035351 |
Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers,...
| Author | Pamela S. Turner |
| ISBN | 0544416198 |
One of the biggest differences between humans and animals is the ability to understand the idea of “If I do X, Y might happen.” New Caledonian crows seem to possess the intelligence to understand this “causal” concept. Why do crows have this ability? What does the crow know and what does it tell...
| Author | Peter Sís |
| ISBN | 0374456283 |
As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men . . .
Charles Darwin was, above all else, an independent thinker who continues even now to influence the way we look at the natural world. His endless curiosity and passion for detail resulted in a wealth of notebooks, diaries,...
| 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 | Robert Byrd |
| ISBN | 0803737491 |
In this informative book all about the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, author Robert Byrd uses text and vibrant art to show the many ways Ben Franklin contributed to American history. He was a printer, writer, publisher, inventor, and founding Father of the new American nation. Most...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0544232704 |
With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus...
| 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 | Gail Jarrow |
| ISBN | 1620917386 |
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens
In March 1900, San Francisco’s health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. But how...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0439691842 |
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes!
When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the...
| Author | Janet Schulman |
| ISBN | 0375845585 |
The birdwatchers of Central Park were buzzing–a young red-tailed hawk had been spotted, would he stay? The bird they dubbed Pale Male not only stayed, he became one of New York City’s most famous residents. Pale Male and his mate built their nest near the top of one of Fifth Avenue’s swankiest apartment...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0525422153 |
The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks....
| Author | Nic Bishop |
| ISBN | 0439877571 |
Award-winning author and photographer Nic Bishop brings his vast knowledge of biology to this eye-catching exploration of butterflies and moths. With breathtaking full-page images, Nic introduces young readers to the beauty and diversity of these amazing insects, from the shockingly bright...
| 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....
Andy Warhol : Prince of Pop
“IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.”
The Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone...
| Author | Julie Gassman |
| ISBN | 1515702758 |
September 11, 2001 was a black day in U.S. history. Amid the chaos, sea captains and crews raced by boat to the tragic Manhattan scene. Nearly 500,000 people on Manhattan Island were rescued that day in what would later be called the largest sea evacuation in history. In this rarely told story of heroism,...
| Author | Ammi-Joan Paquette |
| ISBN | 0062418823 |
Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories about the living world as well as a handful of stories that are too crazy to be true—and asks readers to separate facts from fakes! Did you know that there is a fungus that can control the mind of an...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0544313658 |
In the latest eye-catching escape into the kingdom of Animalia, Steve Jenkins and Robin Page reveal the skills animals use to survive in the wild in an imaginative and humorous how-to format. With step-by-step instructions, readers learn about specific behaviors; how to catch thousands of fish like...
