Life on Surtsey - Iceland's Upstart Island

About the author

LOREE GRIFFIN BURNS, Ph.D., did her doctoral at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The author of Beetle Busters, Tracking Trash, and The Hive Detectives, she is an award-winning writer whose books for young people have won many accolades, including ALA Notable designations, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Award, an IRA Children’s Book Award, a Green Earth Book Award and two Science Books & Films (SB&F) Prizes.
Loree holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and her books draw heavily on both her passion for science and nature and her experiences as a working scientist. She lives with her husband and their three kids in a farmhouse in central New England, where she gardens, keeps chickens, and writes about science and scientists. She likes to think that one day she’ll fill the big old barn on their property with horses.
Learn more about Loree at loreegriffinburns.com and follow her on Twitter @loreegburns.

Product details

• Authors: Loree Griffin Burns
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2017
• EAN: 9780544687233
• ISBN: 978-0-544-68723-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 279 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Series: Scientists in the Field
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Animals, plants, nature, the environment; Europe, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Birds, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Educational: Environmental science, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc., JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Birds, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Careers, JUVENILE NONFICTION: People & Places / Europe, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world