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Alaska Description and travel Birds Alaska Lighthouse keepers Biography Juvenile literature Lighthouses Juvenile literature Natural history Alaska Ornithologists United States Biography Suzuki family Van Hemert, Caroline Travel Alaska Wilderness areas Alaska World War, 1939-1945 Children Juvenile literatureKimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIMVan Hemert, Caroline
Summary: For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2019