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Condor comeback

Award-winning and best-selling author Sy Montgomery turns her talents to the story of California condors and the scientists who have fought against their extinction.

Main Author: Montgomery, Sy (Author)
Other Authors: Strombeck, Tianne (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
Series: Scientists in the field
Subjects:
California condor > Juvenile nonfiction.
Summary: Award-winning and best-selling author Sy Montgomery turns her talents to the story of California condors and the scientists who have fought against their extinction.
Physical Description: 89 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Audience: Age 10-12.
Grade 4 to 6.
Bibliography: Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 86-87).
ISBN: 9780544816534
0544816536
Author Notes: Sy Montgomery was born on February 7, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany. She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College in 2004, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University and also from Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.

Montgomery is a naturalist. She is an author, and scriptwriter. Her most popular book, The Good Good Pig, is a memoir of her life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood. The book became listed on the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. How to be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals was published in September 2018. Her other notable titles include Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Spell of the Tiger, and Search for the Golden Moon Bear.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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