Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Winner of the John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them-just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge

A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals.

In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons-a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals.

This title has Common Core connections.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: David Macaulay Studio
Published: 09/30/2014
ISBN: 9781596438743
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.70w x 0.40d
Award: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - Honor Book
Award: Rhode Island Children's Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: School Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 121
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2014 pg. 135
Booklist 09/01/2014 pg. 98
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2014
New York Times Book Review 11/09/2014 pg. 42
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2014
Kirkus Best Picture Books 11/15/2014 pg. 71
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/01/2014 pg. 56
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2014 pg. 28
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 169650 / Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
Reading Level: 6.6 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5