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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Hardback - 2012

by Phillip Hoose

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"B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind." With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird.

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B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.

He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moon--and halfway back!

B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey.

B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuit--changes caused mostly by human activity--have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. And so, since 1995, when B95 was first captured and banded, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent. Most perish somewhere along the great hemispheric circuit, but the Moonbird wings on. He has been seen as recently as November 2011, which makes him nearly twenty years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall?

National Book Award-winning author Phillip Hoose takes us around the hemisphere with the world's most celebrated shorebird, showing the obstacles rufa red knots face, introducing a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offering insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before it's too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird. Moonbird is one The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012.

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  • Title Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
  • Author Phillip Hoose
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Second printing
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr), New York
  • Publication date 2012-07-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780374304683 / 0374304688
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.75 x 8.84 x 0.69 in (24.77 x 22.45 x 1.75 cm)
  • Age range 12 to 15 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 10
  • Reading level 1150
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Bird watching, Red knot - Migration
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011035612
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.072

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2012, Page 77
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2013, Page 11
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2012, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 07/01/2012, Page 135
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2013, Page 0
  • Kirkus Best Young-Adult Books, 12/01/2012, Page 66
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2012, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/14/2012, Page 70
  • School Library Journal, 10/01/2012, Page 157
  • SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/2012, Page 34
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 08/01/2012, Page 289

About the author

Phillip Hoose is the widely-acclaimed author of the National Book Award winner Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which is also a Newbery Honor Book, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, a YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, among other honors. His other books include The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award Finalist. Mr. Hoose lives in Portland, Maine.

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