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Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries from Perilous Places (Scientists in the Field Series) Hardcover – May 4, 2009

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  • Age Range: 10 - 12 years
  • Grade Level: 5 - 7
  • Lexile Measure: NC1130L (What's this?)
  • Series: Scientists in the Field Series
  • Hardcover: 80 pages
  • Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (May 4, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0618777067
  • ISBN-13: 978-0618777068
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis wildly fascinating book about extreme scientists will leave the reader wanting more!
By Deb HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 11, 2009
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Sometimes the passion and the rewards of a job outweigh its risks as in the case of many "extreme scientists." They all have jobs to do and flirting with danger is just part of it. You just gotta do what you gotta do and in this book you'll be an armchair observer and feel the thrills without a chance of getting hurt unless of course you fall out of your chair with excitement when you dream of having one of these careers!

Paul Flaherty was always fascinated by the weather and knew, even as a young boy, that he was going to be a meteorologist. The blizzard of `78 for a "weather-crazed kid" turned him on, but the first storm that totally mesmerized him was Hurricane Gloria. He went out in the storm . . . "the sand blinded me at times and it was the first time I saw the ocean crash over the seawall." Paul was going to be a hurricane hunter and mark the "absolute center" of them!

Hazel Barton is a microbiologist and her quest takes her underground in search of some of the world's "tiniest inhabitants." Her specialty is looking for "extremophiles," microbes that can survive under the harshest of conditions. When she was a teenager, a biology assignment was to grow microbes in a petri dish using anything from her body, say like dandruff. "The next day, this gross yellow snotty thing grew, and it was just amazing to me . . . From that point on, I knew I wanted to do microbiology." Now the Cave Woman forges into the unknown beneath the Earth in search of microbes.

Steve Sillett was like a lot of kids. He loved climbing trees. When he was in college, he "studied organisms that live in trees" and then became "fascinated with forest canopies," the stuff that grows at the top of trees. Now Steve was made of all the right stuff to become a botanist.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsbest book ever!
By Y. Trehalf on July 29, 2009
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Gave them away as gifts to all the little future scientists we know. Well written and interesting! Shows kids the interesting side to being a scientist.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat way to introduce non-fiction comprehension within a topic
By michellepenguin23 on February 3, 2014
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Great way to introduce non-fiction comprehension within a topic. It opened up our Earth Science reports into "what scientists do"
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