Bionic Beasts: Saving Animal Lives with Artificial Flippers, Legs, and Beaks

Contributor(s): Gutiérrez, Jolene (Author)

ISBN: 9781541589407

Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)

$23.99

Pub Date: October 6, 2020

Dewey: 636.0897

LCCN: 2019050146

Lexile Code: 1150

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: 09 to 14

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 10.20" L x 8.20" W ( 0.90 lbs) 48 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000511705 ( Bionic Beasts: Saving Animal Lives with Artificial Flippers, Legs, and Beaks)

Reading level: 7.40

Interest level: MG

Point value: 1.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Amazing true stories of how humans have created high-tech prosthetic body parts to help injured animals around the globe.

Brief description: Jolene Gutiérrez has always loved animals. She grew up on a farm where she rode horses, bottle-fed calves, chased kittens, and raised tadpoles that grew into toads. She's been a school librarian for 25 years and lives in Colorado with her husband, 2 teenage kids, 3 preteen dogs, and 1 prickly hedgehog. Learn more at www.jolenegutierrez.com.

Review Quotes:

"Examining environmentalism, animal rescue, and technological possibility, this science-filled book for upper-elementary to middle school readers entertains in many forms."--School Library Journal

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