Emi and the Rhino Scientist (Scientists in the Field)

by Mary Kay Carson (Author)

Emi and the Rhino Scientist (Scientists in the Field)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

Terri Roth trudges through the thick, dark Sumatran jungle. She’s looking for a rhinoceros that’s been seen in the area. It’s a rare Sumatran rhino, the world’s smallest rhino and one of the most endangered mammals on the planet. Suddenly she spots a young female rhino through the tangle of ferns and trees. The stocky animal is covered in reddish hair, and her snout sports two stubby horns. The rhino walks right up to Terri. The scientist slowly reaches out her hand and touches the rhino’s big nose.

The wild rhino’s curiosity and friendliness remind Terri of Emi, the female Sumatran rhino that lives at the Cincinnati Zoo where Terri works. Terri is working with Emi to help save Sumatran rhinos from extinction—one calf at a time.

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ALA/Booklist

Starred Review
"This latest in the Scientists in the Field series has all the elements of top-notch nonfiction." 

Kirkus

Starred Review
With clearly written text, detailed and well-produced photographs and helpful maps and charts...should be welcome in high-school as well as middle-school libraries.

Hornbook

Carson provides fascinating detail...color photographs featuring Roth at work are upstaged only by those of the rhinos themselves...

School Library Journal

The text is full of important details, and the photographs are unfailingly crisp, bright, and full of variety.

Review quotes

"Pair this with other animal titles...and make sure kids get a chance to view Emi real-time on the zoo's webcam." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 

"An engaging new volume." —The Washington Post 

Mary Kay Carson
Mary Kay Carson is the author of more than fifty books for young people about wildlife, space, weather, nature, and history. After studying biology in college, and a stint in the Peace Corps, she began her writing career working on the classroom magazine SuperScience. Her books have received more than a dozen starred reviews, as well as multiple awards. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband in a century-old house surrounded by urban greenspace, deer, hawks, woodchucks, and songbirds. www.marykaycarson.com

Shen Fei is an illustrator based in Malaysia. He grew up drawing manga and superheroes, which has led him to working in games and animation for the past decade. He is currently a freelance artist working on film, games, and books.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780547408507
Lexile Measure
910
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
October 25, 2010
Series
Scientists in the Field
BISAC categories
JNF051150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
JNF003140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Mammals
JNF003200 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Zoos
JNF051050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Biology
JNF051030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Anatomy & Physiology
Library of Congress categories
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Wilde Award
Winner Best Nonfiction

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