Charlotte's Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field Contributor(s): Rounds, Erin (Author), Carver, Alison (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0884488608 ISBN-13: 9780884488606 Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Fossils - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Marine Life |
Dewey: 560.456 |
Lexile Measure: 940 |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.9" W x 10" (0.50 lbs) 36 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer's field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale's skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? The answer--that Lake Champlain had once been an arm of the sea--encouraged radical new thinking about geological time scales and animal evolution. Charlotte's Bones is a haunting, science-based reconstruction of how Charlotte died 11,000 years ago in a tidal marsh, how the marsh became a field, how Charlotte found a second life as the Vermont state fossil, and what messages her bones whisper to us now about the fragility of life and our changing Earth. |