Marlo Garnsworthy – författare

Pikas, tiny rabbit relatives living high in the mountains, serve as an entry point toward understanding theconsequences of climate change.Pikas can’t live in temperatures higher than 77 degrees F. As the Earth’s temperature rises, pikas must keep movinghigher and higher up the mountains to find a cooler climate in which to live. Everything is connected in the naturalworld. As the pikas livable habitat decreases, the lives of hawks, falcons, pine martins, foxes and the many othercreatures that prey upon pikas are affected.If you are looking for an easily understandable introduction to the consequences of climate change, this is the book foryou. Glorious photographs and a well-organized text reveal the key role pikas play in the alpine ecosystem. Helpfuldiagrams demonstrate the food web that includes this tiny mammal and other plants and animals, also threatened by thechanging climate. A glossary, map and list of actions kids can take to help decrease climate change are also included.Free, downloadable activities can be found on the publisher's website.

An injured red-tailed hawk can no longer fly free, but her instinct to become a mother is so strong that she adoptsand raises two abandoned red-shouldered hawks in this true and heartwarming story of interspecies friendship. When someone cuts down a tree containing a nest, two hawk eggs are in desperate need of help. Sunshine the hawk motherto the rescue! Sunshine is a red-tailed hawk who can no longer fly. Her mothering instinct is so strong that she once successfullyraised two chicken eggs to adulthood. She seems like the perfect choice to adopt these eggs. But there is a problem:The eggs are red-shouldered hawks, not red-tailed hawks, and one of them has already hatched.  Will Sunshineaccept an egg and newly hatched chick of a competing hawk species? Will Sunshine be a mother again?  Findout in this uplifting sequel about interspecies adoption and the deep trust and understanding between Sunshine andzoologist Kara Hagedorn. Read the other book in this series:Hawk Mother: The Story of a Red-tailed Hawk Who Hatched Chickens.