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The Sixth Extinction : an Unnatural History

Author: Kleiner, John

Follett Number: 2705MCX
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company, c2024, p2023
Format: 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-25079-342-3
ISBN-10: 1-25079-342-4
LCCN: 2023-022504
Dewey: 576.8
Classifications: Nonfiction

Subjects:
Adaptations
Environmental Disasters
Extinction (Biology)
Mass Extinctions
A young readers adaption of "The Sixth Extinction".;Includes index. "This adaptation for young readers incorporates the . . . material of the original book, focusing particularly on biodiversity: its history and its threatened future. In addition, this edition includes illustrations to help make the past, present, and future of extinction compelling for younger readers"--Provided by publisher.

From the publisher:
In this young readers adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores how humans are altering life on Earth.

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