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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Hardcover - 2004

by Phillip M. Hoose


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The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it.

All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of "The Sibley Guide to Birds" calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker."

"The Race to Save the Lord God Bird" is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.

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DR. JAMES VAN REMSEN PULLS OPEN A WOODEN DRAWER AND HANDS ME AN IVORY-billed Woodpecker.

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  • Title The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
  • Author Phillip M. Hoose
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Melanie Kroupa Books, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date August 11, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780374361730 / 0374361738
  • Weight 2.13 lbs (0.97 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.76 x 8.8 x 0.89 in (24.79 x 22.35 x 2.26 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 13
  • Reading level 1150
  • Library of Congress subjects Endangered species, Ivory-billed woodpecker
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003049049
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.72

About the author

Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. His book "Claudette Colvin" won a National Book Award and was dubbed a "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of 2009. He is also the author of "Hey, Little Ant," co-authored by his daughter, Hannah, "It's Our World, Too!," and "We Were There, Too!," a National Book Award finalist. He has received a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, a Christopher Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, among numerous honors. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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