Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter (Arbordale Collection) - Softcover

Mary Alice Monroe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607185830 ISBN 13: 9781607185833

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

This heart-warming journal shares the joys of a mother and daughter s special bond and their summer together as Turtle Team volunteers. Photographs blend with art and prose to bring to life this loving story of their time together protecting endangered loggerhead sea turtles. Join mother and daughter as they patrol the beaches searching for sea turtle nests, and then stand with them under starry skies as they protect the eggs and young hatchlings. Turtle Summer is the journal described in Swimming Lessons, the sequel to Mary Alice Monroe s New York Times bestselling novel, The Beach House.

ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award
Bank Street 2008 Best Children's Books of the Year
2008 and 2009 Florida Recommended Summer Reading List
IRA CBC Children's Choices Selection for 2008
'08 Science Books & Films Prize Finalist
'07 Green Earth Award Finalist.

5-pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
62-pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book's homepage
eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio
Aligned to State Standards / Lexile, Guided Reading, AR, Reading Counts, and Fountas & Pinnell

About this title

From the Author:

Dear Reader,

In my adult novel, "Swimming Lessons," the mother assembles a journal of photographs and sketches for her young daughter depicting the summer they spent together tending turtles during the loggerhead nesting season.

"Turtle Summer, A Journal for my Daughter" IS the journal composed in the novel.

This journal is dedicated to all grandmothers, mothers, and daughters. Join us in our world as Turtle Ladies and share the beauty and magic of a turtle summer! Mary Alice Monroe

From the Inside Flap:

This is a companion book to Mary Alice Monroe's novel, Swimming Lessons, the sequel to The Beach House. In the novel, the readers witness a young mother, Toy, writing a journal for her daughter, Little Lovie. This is the journal Toy is writing. Using original photographs, this scrapbook journal explains the nesting cycle of sea turtles and the natural life along the southeastern coast, including local shore birds, shells, and the sea turtle hospital. Adults and children will enjoy the images, information and the journal with or without the novel. All Sylvan Dell titles feature free educational resources at www.SylvanDellPublishing.com, including the "For Creative Minds" sections and additional teaching activities. The "For Creative Minds" Section includes: Endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle Fun Facts Nesting and Life cycle Sea turtle conservation, Matching Crafts Items needed by Turtle Teams Shell identification, Make Your Own Nature Scrapbook. 2007 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1607185830
• ISBN 13: 9781607185833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Barbara J. Bergwerf