The Longest Journey: An Arctic Tern's Migration

by Amy Hevron

Book Overview

Follow the epic annual migration of an Arctic Tern on its sixty-thousand-mile journey to the South Pole and back again, the longest such migration in the animal kingdom.

In their thirty-year lifetimes, Arctic Terns travel nearly 1.5 million miles, that's enough to fly to the Moon and back three times

Each year they brave blistering winds, storms, rough seas, and airborne predators as they travel between the Earth's poles, chasing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823447006
• ISBN13: 9780823447008
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Neal Porter Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3