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 by Roy, Katherine

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

A Robert F. Sibert Honor BookWinner of the John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers Up close...
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Author: Katherine Roy
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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

BD$28.54
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

BD$28.54
Author: Katherine Roy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

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
Publisher: David Macaulay Studio
Published: 09/30/2014
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.70w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781596438743
Audience: Ages 9-12

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

About the Author
Katherine Roy is the award-winning author and illustrator of Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands and How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild. She is also the illustrator for the Expeditioners series by S. S. Taylor and of Buried Beneath Us by Anthony Aveni. She loves science, history, and big adventures, and is endlessly fascinated by the way things live. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, she currently lives in with her husband and young son in Oregon, where she's still learning how to be a human. You can visit her website at http: //katherineroy.com/ to learn more about her work, her research, and African elephants.
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