Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery 2015 Hardcover Marine Biology Exploration-image
Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery 2015 Hardcover Marine Biology Exploration-image

Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery 2015 Hardcover Marine Biology Exploration

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Publication Year: 2015 Item Weight: 20.4 Oz LC Classification Number: QL430.3.O2M656 2015 Item Length: 9 in Language: English LCCN: 2015-452630 Intended Audience: Juvenile Audience gtin13: 9780544232709 Book Title: Octopus Scientists Book Series: Scientists in the Field Ser. Topic: Animals / Marine Life, People & Places / Australia & Oceania, Science & Nature / Discoveries, Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Water (Oceans, Lakes, Etc.), Science & Nature / Biology ISBN-10: 0544232704 Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction Grade From: Fifth Grade Item Width: 11 in Number of Pages: 80 Pages Publisher: HarperCollins Format: Hardcover Reviews: * "Chapters of action, with smoothly integrated explanatory background, are interspersed with informative passages about octopuses, the field station, and coral reefs...Amazing photographs reveal the octopuses' remarkable shape-changing abilities and help readers visualize this experience. Science in the field at its best." -- Kirkus, starred review * "Endlessly fascinating." -- Booklist , starred review "Montgomery describes all aspects of life in the field, including the personalities and quirks of the scientists and the joys of working in a beautiful tropical locale. Abundant stunningly clear underwater photographs highlight the colorful details of a range of marine species." --Horn Book Magazine * "Through sharply crafted text, Montgomery shares her enthusiasm with readers, and Ellenbogen's vibrant color photos allow a crystalline window into a very special environment...Another enticing entry in a series devoted to highlighting enthusiastic scientists hard at work in the fields they love." -- School Library Journal , starred review "The reliably informative and entertaining Montgomery is off on another Scientists in the Field adventure." --Bulletin  , * "Chapters of action, with smoothly integrated explanatory background, are interspersed with informative passages about octopuses, the field station, and coral reefs...Amazing photographs reveal the octopuses' remarkable shape-changing abilities and help readers visualize this experience. Science in the field at its best." --Kirkus, starred review * "Endlessly fascinating." --Booklist, starred review "Montgomery describes all aspects of life in the field, including the personalities and quirks of the scientists and the joys of working in a beautiful tropical locale. Abundant stunningly clear underwater photographs highlight the colorful details of a range of marine species." --Horn Book Magazine * "Through sharply crafted text, Montgomery shares her enthusiasm with readers, and Ellenbogen's vibrant color photos allow a crystalline window into a very special environment...Another enticing entry in a series devoted to highlighting enthusiastic scientists hard at work in the fields they love." --School Library Journal, starred review "The reliably informative and entertaining Montgomery is off on another Scientists in the Field adventure." --Bulletin, * "Chapters of action, with smoothly integrated explanatory background, are interspersed with informative passages about octopuses, the field station, and coral reefs...Amazing photographs reveal the octopuses' remarkable shape-changing abilities and help readers visualize this experience. Science in the field at its best." -- Kirkus, starred review * "Endlessly fascinating." -- Booklist , starred review "Montgomery describes all aspects of life in the field, including the personalities and quirks of the scientists and the joys of working in a beautiful tropical locale. Abundant stunningly clear underwater photographs highlight the colorful details of a range of marine species." --Horn Book Magazine * "Through sharply crafted text, Montgomery shares her enthusiasm with readers, and Ellenbogen's vibrant color photos allow a crystalline window into a very special environment...Another enticing entry in a series devoted to highlighting enthusiastic scientists hard at work in the fields they love." -- School Library Journal , starred review  , * "Chapters of action, with smoothly integrated explanatory background, are interspersed with informative passages about octopuses, the field station, and coral reefs...Amazing photographs reveal the octopuses' remarkable shape-changing abilities and help readers visualize this experience. Science in the field at its best." -- Kirkus, starred review, * "Chapters of action, with smoothly integrated explanatory background, are interspersed with informative passages about octopuses, the field station, and coral reefs...Amazing photographs reveal the octopuses' remarkable shape-changing abilities and help readers visualize this experience. Science in the field at its best." -- Kirkus, starred review * "Endlessly fascinating." -- Booklist , starred review "Montgomery describes all aspects of life in the field, including the personalities and quirks of the scientists and the joys of working in a beautiful tropical locale. Abundant stunningly clear underwater photographs highlight the colorful details of a range of marine species." --Horn Book Magazine * "Through sharply crafted text, Montgomery shares her enthusiasm with readers, and Ellenbogen's vibrant color photos allow a crystalline window into a very special environment...Another enticing entry in a series devoted to highlighting enthusiastic scientists hard at work in the fields they love." -- School Library Journal , starred review "The reliably informative and entertaining Montgomery is off on another Scientists in the Field adventure." --Bulletin, * "Chapters of action, with smoothly integrated explanatory background, are interspersed with informative passages about octopuses, the field station, and coral reefs...Amazing photographs reveal the octopuses' remarkable shape-changing abilities and help readers visualize this experience. Science in the field at its best." -- Kirkus, starred review * "Endlessly fascinating." -- Booklist , starred review Author: Sy Montgomery Dewey Edition: 23 Synopsis: Part of the award-winning Scientists in the Field series, The Octopus Scientists takes readers to the waters off of Moorea, Tahiti to study the mind of the mollusk. Follow scientists as they uncover the secrets of its advanced intelligence and learn what these thinking, feeling creatures have to teach us about the oceans, its animals, and ourselves., 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 also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow. But most intriguing of all, octopuses--classed as mollusks, like clams--are remarkably intelligent with quirky personalities. This book, an inquiry into the mind of an intelligent invertebrate, is also a foray into our own unexplored planet. These thinking, feeling creatures can help readers experience and understand our world (and perhaps even life itself) in a new way. TitleLeading: The brand: HarperCollins Illustrator: Ellenbogen, Keith, Yes Dewey Decimal: 594.56 Item Height: 0.5 in Grade To: Seventh Grade ISBN-13: 9780544232709

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