Charlotte's bones : the Beluga whale in a farmer's field
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Carver, Alison, Illustrator
Published
Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, 2018.
Status
Central - Kids Nonfiction
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Published
Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, 2018.
Format
Book
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1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 26 cm
Language
English

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In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer's field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale's skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? The answer-that Lake Champlain had once been an arm of the sea-encouraged radical new thinking about geological time scales and animal evolution. Charlotte's Bones is a haunting, science-based reconstruction of how Charlotte died 11,000 years ago in a tidal marsh, how the marsh became a field, how Charlotte found a second life as the Vermont state fossil, and what messages her bones whisper to us now about the fragility of life and our changing Earth. -- from Amazon.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rounds, E., & Carver, A. (2018). Charlotte's bones: the Beluga whale in a farmer's field . Tilbury House Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rounds, Erin and Alison, Carver. 2018. Charlotte's Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field. Tilbury House Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rounds, Erin and Alison, Carver. Charlotte's Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field Tilbury House Publishers, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Rounds, Erin,, and Alison Carver. Charlotte's Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field Tilbury House Publishers, 2018.

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