Middle Grades Nonfiction Science Book
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
Author: Catherine Thimmesh
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
This book takes readers behind the scenes of the mission that first placed humans on the Moondramatically telling, for example, the story of the near-catastrophe the astronauts faced when they were less than 35,000 feet from the lunar surface. The pictures do the story full justice, and it was good to see the emphasis on the team who made an historic event possible. Team Moon was also honored with the American Library Association's 2007 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award.
Young Adult Science Book
Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
Author: Eric Dinerstein
Island Press, 2005
Through a series of autobiographical essays, the author recounts his efforts to preserve wildlife and wildlands. He describes his not-always-enjoyable adventures seeking tigers in Nepal, giant river otters on the Orinoco, snow leopards in Kashmir, and bats in Costa Rica's Monteverde cloud forest. There are encounters with wildebeest on the Serengeti, the ancient vegetation of New Caledonia, prairie dogs and bison on North America's Great Plains, and the fauna and flora (endemic and introduced) of the Galpagos. Woven into his narrative are portraits of environmentalists and considerations of critical conservation issues such as ecotourism, habitat fragmentation, and ecosystem restoration. The book provides a quiet yet compelling introduction to conse
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14-Feb-2007