Shark Quest - Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

"Readers will learn all about sharks and the human relationship with sharks, including how researchers study sharks at sea and how students can get involved in learning more about sharks and helping to protect these incredible creatures"--

About the author

Karen Romano Young has dived to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a tiny submarine, crunched through Arctic ice in an icebreaker, and visited labs, museum workshops, and research institutions across the U.S. to write and draw about science. She was a lead science communications fellow aboard Dr. Robert Ballard's research ship E/V Nautilus.

Karen has written and/or illustrated more than 30 books for children and is the creator of Humanimal Doodles, a science comic. Her nonfiction books include Try This! and Try This Extreme! (National Geographic). Her fiction work includes The Beetle and Me: A Love Story; the graphic novel Doodlebug: a Novel in Doodles; and Hundred Percent. Her next book for Twenty-First Century Books is Whale Quest.

Karen lives with her family in the woods of Bethel, Connecticut. Her next adventure is a stint at Palmer Station, Antarctica, as the recipient of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant. She has not yet traveled to space.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Romano Young
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 14
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781512498059
• ISBN: 978-1-5124-9805-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Animals, plants, nature, the environment; Kinder/Jugendliche: Sachbuch: Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Children's Books / Ages 9-12 Fiction, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Zoology, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Animals / Animal Welfare, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Animals / Marine Life