*The Frog Scientist

The Frog Scientist

Scientists in the Field Series

By Pamela Turner

Photos by Andy Comins

Houghton Mifflin, 2009

ISBN  #978-0618717163

Nonfiction

Ages 9-12

64 pages

*The Frog Scientist is nominated for a Cybil award in middle grade/ YA nonfiction.

 "Tyrone didn't worry about chemicals in the water when he was younger. He just liked to wade in it. 'My neighborhood was near a swamp full of frogs, snapping turtles, and snakes,' recalls Tyrone. 'My interest in them started when I was four or five. I tell...