Bibliograph

Type

Label

Moonbird, a year on the wind with the great survivor B95, Phillip Hoose

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Intended audience

1150L, lexileSentence length: 5 (very hard), Word frequency: 1 (very easy), Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Moonbird

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

747533437

Responsibility statement

Phillip Hoose

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 7.9, 5.0.Reading Counts!, 7.0.

Sub title

a year on the wind with the great survivor B95

Summary

Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline

Table Of Contents

Meet B95 -- Introduction -- Super bird (profile: Clive Minton) -- The Flight machine (profile: Patricia Gonzalez) -- Showdown at Delaware Bay (profile: Brian Harrington) -- Twinkling and trapping -- The Arctic breeding grounds (profile: Amanda Dey) -- Mingan: the bellwether site (profile: Guy Morrison and Ken Ross) -- Southbound: closing the circuit -- Extinction is forever (profile: Mike Hudson) -- Appendix : what you can do -- Source notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index

Target audience

juvenile

Creator