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Author Mary Jo Nickum has won two
more awards. The first is Book Excellence Award Finalist for a Girl Named Mary.
The second is OWAA Excellence in Craft Award for Looking at the Cat, an Eye on
Evolution.

Nickum is a retired librarian and
project manager, who is now an editor and freelance writer. Her primary focus
is on science for the public, especially topics related to natural history. She
has chosen to extend her science for the public outreach to children.

She earned a B.A. degree in English
education at Northland College, Ashland, WI, a Masters in Librarianship (M.
Lib.) at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and a Masters in
Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. She
worked as a science librarian at the US Environmental Protection Agency,
National Water Quality Laboratory in Duluth, MN, as Oceanography/Zoology
librarian at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, as Project Manager of the
Fish and Wildlife Reference Service in Rockville, MD, and as a Division Manager
for the Maxima Corporation, a Washington, DC firm that specialized in
information services for Federal and County governments. She is a former editor
of The Progressive Fish-Culturist, Editor-in-Chief of the Intermountain Journal
of Science, and currently edits the World Aquaculture magazine. You can learn
more on her website at: http://marynickum.com .

Mary’s articles on aquaculture
topics are published in: Hatchery International, Aquaculture Magazine, Northern
Aquaculture and Fish Farming News. She is currently working on several
nonfiction books and articles for children. Her website for children is http://www.asktheanimallady.com . Mary has been writing science for the public since 1995
and a member of: OWAA, SCBWI, PTP, PWC, and SSWW

Nickum's books are available at
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and in digital (e-book) formats.

A GIRL
NAMED MARY

A Girl Named Mary tells the story of Mary, the Mother of
Jesus as a young girl. Though she has a much older sister, she’s raised as an
only child. Her cousin, Rebekka, is her closet friend and confidant. Together
they grow and learn how to maneuver in a culture that is steeped in tradition.
One that looks backward instead of forward for solutions to problems. Mary
cares about others, helps the sick and disadvantaged and is a voice, albeit a
young voice, for women.

At twelve, Mary was betrothed to an older man who had sons her age. She
resisted this arrangement strongly. She argued with her parents against the
betrothal with every bit of logic and strength she had but found this tradition
beyond her ability to fight. The marriage took place and she was rewarded by
the birth of a beautiful baby boy, Jesus.

LOOKING AT THE CAT

“The history of
the domestic cat may stretch back even further, as 8,000-year-old bones of
humans and cats were found buried together on the island of Cyprus.”

The history of
the cat goes back much further than the Egyptians, as the reader will find out
when reading “Looking at the Cat, An Eye on Evolution”. This book is an
overview of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as it relates to the cat. The student
not only is exposed to the concepts of evolution but, at the same time, is
shown examples of how evolution has progressed and the timeframe during which
these changes have taken place. The book contains 44 pictures, photos and
graphs along with 10 sidebars to further supplement the text. 

More books by this author:

THE COELACANTH

The
primitive-looking coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was thought to have
gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But its discovery in 1938
by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler fascinated the
world and ignited a debate about how this bizarre lobe-finned fish fits into
the evolution of land animals. There are only two known species of coelacanths:
one that lives near the Comoros Islands off the east coast of Africa, and one
found in the waters of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Many scientists believe that the
unique characteristics of the coelacanth represent an early step in the
evolution of fish to terrestrial four-legged animals like amphibians.

WHO WAS MACHO B

Although jaguars
are native to Arizona, little is known about the population segment that
resides in Mexico and uses southern Arizona and New Mexico as the northern
extent of its range. It was thought the species had been extirpated from the
state until 1996 when the first jaguar documented since 1986 was photographed
by a southern Arizona rancher/mountain lion hunter. After capture, collar and
release, a web of intrigue surrounded death of the only jaguar in Arizona, Macho
B.

FIRE IN THE TREES

Find
out how some fires in the forest can help trees. Given additionallight, new
trees can sprout from seeds and grow to be saplings. Believe it or not, some
cones need fire to open and spill their seeds. Conifers are different from
other trees, though. Would you like to work in the forest, among the trees?
This book will tell you how you could be a forester.

MOM'S STORY

Mom’s
Story; A Child Learns About MS tells the story of a young girl who sees her
mother with some frightening health problems and learns she has MS but she will
not die from it. This book is a compassionate, accessible and easy to
understand account of symptoms, search for help, diagnosis and adaptation to
this heart-wrenching disease. Amy fears the worst, which is common when one is
confronted by the unknown. Her best friend, Kayla, doesn’t quite understand why
Amy is so worried. Amy’s older sister, Kelly is concerned and does her best to
help, while older brother, Tony, tries to deny the whole situation. Information
is the key to allaying much of her fear along with understanding from parents,
adult friends and her older sister.

Ten percent of
the net proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society.