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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot
$11.99 Read more2011 Sibert Medal Winner
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds–the largest- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0544668294
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Octopus
$18.99 Add to cartTake an illuminating journey into the life of the octopus, one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.
Come closer than ever to these elusive creatures, thanks to insights from an internatio- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1426225482
- Language: English
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The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling and Sibert Honor–winning creators of The Book of Turtles brings us the true story of a snapping turtle’s extraordinary journey–and the amazing conservationists who helped give him a s
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0063325160
- Language: English
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What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird
$22.99 Add to cartA charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, “one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world” (The New York Times).
For more- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1668047365
- Language: English
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The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
$11.99 Add to cartA 2007 Sibert Honor Book
It looks like a bear, but isn’t one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey– but isn’t a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what’s a kangaroo doing u- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 054724892X
- Language: English
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
$11.99 Add to cartWhen Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism. Temple’s doctor recommended institutionalizing her, but her mother believed in her. Temple
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0544339096
- Language: English
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The Tarantula Scientist
$11.99 Read moreA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery and award-winning photographer Nic Bishop team up for an amazing excursion into the world of working scientists studying Earth’s bi- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 061891577X
- Language: English
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The Hyena Scientist
$14.99 Read more“An appealing, elegantly designed introduction to another much-maligned species.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“A fascinating, informative, and inclusive window into a feared and misunderstood species.” –
- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0063290863
- Language: English
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The Snake Scientist
$11.99 Add to cartDr. Robert Mason has been studying a mysterious phenomenon for over fifteen years: the reemergence of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes — the world’s largest concentration of snakes — aft
- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 26 2001
- ISBN10: 0618111190
- Language: English
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The Octopus Scientists
$18.99 Read moreWith three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eig
- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0544232704
- Language: English
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
$21.00 Add to cart“In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience. Sometimes it takes a too-smart-for-his-own-good pig to open our eyes to what most ma… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0345496094
- Language: English
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Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
$21.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK and BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * INDIE BESTSELLER * A SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE’S BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR * THE WASHINGTON POST’S B
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0063394235
- Language: English
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The Hyena Scientist
$19.99 Read more“An appealing, elegantly designed introduction to another much-maligned species.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“A fascinating, informative, and inclusive window into a feared and misunderstood species.” –
- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 544635116
- Language: English
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The Great White Shark Scientist
$10.99 Read more* “This appreciative introduction to a much-maligned species will thrill readers while it encourages them to see great white sharks in a new way.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
From the New York T- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0358452074
- Language: English
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The Seagull and the Sea Captain
$17.99 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award Nominee Sy Montgomery comes the sweet, brightly illustrated true story of a seagull and a sea captain who became friends over the course … [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1534482245
- Language: English
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Condor Comeback
$11.99 Add to cartWinner of the Green Earth Book Award
Sibert Medalist, National Book Award Honoree, and New York Times bestselling author Sy Montgomery turns her formidable talents to the story of California condors an
- Series: Scientists in the Field (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0063290782
- Language: English
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The Wild Out Your Window
$15.95 Add to cartWhat could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montg… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0892725753
- Language: English
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The Curious Naturalist: Nature’s Everyday Mysteries
$14.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Sy Montgomery takes you on an exploratory adventure through the seasons, into the woods, along the seashore, over frozen lakes, and right outside the back door.
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0892725109
- Language: English
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Birdology: Adventures with Hip Hop Parrots, Cantankerous Cassowaries, Crabby Crows, Peripatetic Pigeons, Hens, Hawks, and Humming
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the National Book Award Finalist The Soul of an Octopus.
Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 1416569855
- Language: English
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
$28.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction
New York Times Bestseller “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.”- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1451697716
- Language: English
