Finding Wonders
Finding Wonders
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Finding Wonders

Written by Jeannine Atkins
Hardcover
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10 - 13
Reading age
208
Page count
102
Words per page
970L
Lexile measure
Sep 20, 2016
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A gorgeously written novel in verse about three girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists. Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects. More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people’s vision of the past. Across the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the whaling village of Nantucket. At night they explored the starry sky through his telescope. Maria longed to discover a new comet–and after years of studying the night sky, she finally did. Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates the joy of discovery and finding wonder in the world around us.

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technologyfemale scientistsscientistschildhoodpaleontologyscience and naturegirls and womenastronomy17th-century Germanyself-discoverygrowing up

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781481465656
    Publication Date
    September 20, 2016
    Publisher
    Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    Original Publication Date
    September 20, 2016
    Page Count
    208
    Words Per Page
    102
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    10 - 13 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2015036450
    Lexile® Level
    970L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~W
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.8
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    3
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    184408
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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