Astro: The Steller Sea Lion (Arbordale Collection) - Softcover

Jeanne Walker Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607188740 ISBN 13: 9781607188742

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

An orphaned sea lion is found and raised at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. When released, he keeps swimming back to the Center, just like a lost dog finding his way home. Based on real events, follow Astro to his current home at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

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4 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
31 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 Back Cover:

Astro is a stellar Steller sea lion! Only a few days old when found orphaned, he is cared for and raised at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. When big enough to be released to the wild where he needs to be, he has other plans! Just like a lost dog finding his way home, Astro keeps swimming back towards the Center, crossing miles of open ocean water to do so. After several attempts, people realize that Astro is too accustomed to humans and will just keep coming back. Based on real events, readers follow Astro through some of the travels that have taken him across the U.S. to his current home at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut. The For Creative Minds educational section includes: Steller Sea Lions, Steller Sea Lions Threatened and Endangered, Where in the World? (A Map Activity), Steller Sea Lion Life Cycle, Sea Lion or Seal? (What’s the Same? What’s Different?). Additional Teaching Activities and Interactive Quizzes are available for free on the Sylvan Dell Publishing website.

About the Author:

Jeanne Walker Harvey has been a long time member of SCBWI with publications in Writer's Digest, Cricket Magazine, Nation s Business, SCBWI's ACORN, Creativity Connection, Parent's Expecting and Teachers of Vision, including articles pertaining to nature and marine animals. Currently, she teaches Language Arts and a Writing Workshop at her local public middle school. In addition to Astro: The Steller Sea Lionfor Sylvan Dell, Jeanne has also written My Hands Sing the Blues, a story about Romare Bearden. Growing up in Orange County, California, she was always fascinated by the ocean and marine mammals. She lives in Marin County, California, with her husband and two teenage sons and a black lab who sits at her feet when she writes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1607188740
• ISBN 13: 9781607188742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Shennen Bersani