| Up Close: Rachel Carson (Up Close) |
| Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 955859
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0670062200
Dewey Decimal Number: 570.92
EAN: 9780670062201
ASIN: 0670062200
Publication Date: April 5, 2007
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Condition: Book and dust cover in great condition. Has remainder mark on bottom edge.
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Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her awardwinning and controversial book, Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of mans contamination of the environment and ultimately led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Great Introduction to Rachel Carson February 6, 2008
I ended up checking this book out from the library because it seemed to be the only decent biography on Rachel Carson. I didn't realize until I got home that it was written for middle schoolers. I read it anyway because I hadn't read any biographies on her.
This a great introduction to Rachel Carson, especially for children and young adults who have more than a passing interest in marine biology or environmental issues and who might even be considering devoting their lives to one, the other or both. If nothing else, it would be a good source for a paper or report that needs to be written.
This book was written in a way that reminds the reader that women weren't always treated as first class citizens - even after we got the vote. Ellen Levine does a great job illuminating Rachel Carson as a person, scientist and author of her generation without providing a history lesson or going into details that her audience might find boring.
The book contains many excerpts of Rachel Carson's work so that whoever is reading it can get a taste for how she wrote, if she hasn't read any of her books before. There are also excerpts from letters to and from Rachel.
There is a helpful bibliography at the end of the book that will point you in the write direction if you want to read more about Rachel Carson - and this book should really whet your appetite when it comes to learning more about the woman who pretty much single handedly sparked the environmental movement.
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