**Willa** My best friend, Brecken, collects secrets. So when he tells me he knows a potentially life-destroying secret about someone, I dont think too much about it. Until he dies a few hours later. The police rule his death a suicide, but Im not convinced. I dont really start to full
Finding Wonders
β 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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β¦ 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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Willa My best friend, Brecken, collects secrets. So when he tells me he knows a potentially life-destroying secret about someone, I donβt think too much about it. Until he dies a few hours later. The police rule his death a suicide, but Iβm not convinced. I donβt really start to fully questio