# The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

**Author:** Phillip Hoose
**Grade range:** Grades 4–10
**First published:** 2014
**Page count:** 223
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780374301965`
**ISBN-10:** `0374301964`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-race-to-save-the-lord-god-bird
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in th

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