Charlotte's bones
Subtitle: the Beluga whale in a farmer's field
By: written by Erin Rounds ; illustrated by Alison Carver
Contributors: Carver, Alison (Illustrator), ill
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Thomaston, Maine
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780884484851
Subjects: Stratigraphic Geology; GlaciersPleistocene-Holocene boundary; White whale; Juvenile literature; Life cycles (Biology)
Description: In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer s field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale s skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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