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Finding Wonders

✍ Scribed by Atkins, Jeannine


Book ID
100486753
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Tongue
English
Weight
980 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781481465670

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✦ Synopsis


This "evocative and beautiful" (School Library Journal) novel "vividly imagines the lives of three girls" (Booklist , starred review) in three different time periods as they grow up to become groundbreaking scientists.
Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects.

More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people's vision of the past.

Across the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the whaling village of Nantucket. At night they explored the...


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