A fun mystery that will engage younger readers. (RM)
Kathryn Lasky & Matthew Trueman
One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
Candlewick, 2012 (2012)
Softcover
Traces Charles Darwin's life from his childhood when the youth went around the countryside collecting insects and other specimens to his famous voyage on the Beagle in 1831. (BW)
Kathryn Lasky & Christopher Knight
Silk & Venom: Searching For a Dangerous Spider
Candlewick, 2011 (2011)
Hardcover
Join biology professor and arachnologist Greta Binford as she goes in search of the elusive and deadly Loxosceles taino, a reclusive spider whose venom may hold in its DNA the answer to many scientific questions. (BW)