Phillip Hoose

AWARD NEWS FROM ALA MIDWINTER 2013! YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist: Moonbird by Phillip Hoose Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor: Moonbird by Phillip Hoose

Friday, February 15, 6 p.m.

Renowned author and conservationist Hoose will sign his latest book, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, which chronicles the life of the aptly-named “super bird,” a 4-ounce shorebird.

Hoose's book Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, about a courageous but unheralded teenaged Civil Rights activist, won the 2009 National Book Award in the Books for Young Readers category. Hey little ant, co-authored with his daughter Hannah Hoose, has sold more than one million copies and now appears in 10 languages.

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This month's selection is: "Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95" by Phillip Hoose.
We read exciting nonfiction for teens and present projects based on the book. If you have questions or would like to join the group please email teen services librarian Lyla Grills at lgrills@libraryweb.org.

Age Level: Teen (11 yrs. - 16 yrs.)

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He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moon—and halfway back!

B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey.

B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuit—changes caused mostly by human activity—have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. And so, since 1995, when B95 was first captured and banded, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent. Most perish somewhere along the great hemispheric circuit, but the Moonbird wings on. He has been seen as recently as November 2011, which makes him nearly twenty years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall?

National Book Award–winning author Phillip Hoose takes us around the hemisphere with the world’s most celebrated shorebird, showing the obstacles rufa red knots face, introducing a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offering insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before it’s too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird.

Phillip Hoose is the widely-acclaimed author of the National Book Award winner Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which is also a Newbery Honor Book, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, a YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, among other honors. His other books include The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award Finalist. Mr. Hoose lives in Portland, Maine.

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