Erin Rounds

Charlotte's Bones

The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Carver, Alison (Illustr.)

ISBN: 978-0-88448-860-6
EAN: 9780884488606
Produktnummer: 33619567
Verlag: Tilbury House,U.S.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 36 S.
Masse: H25.7 cm x B23.1 cm x D0.8 cm 227 g
Abbildungen: Color throughout
Gewicht: 227

Über den Autor

ERIN ROUNDS is a mom and a fourth-grade ELA and social studies teacher. A writer since grade school, she strives to teach her students to find and share their stories, because you never know what you might find when you dig deep and stop to observe what lies beneath. Charlotte's Bones is her first published work.