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-- ALA Quick Pick -- Parents' Choice Award winner, 1995 -- American Bookseller "Pick if the Lists", 1994 -- "A Few Good Books" for 1994, Book Links -- John Burroughs List of Nature Books, 1994 -- Outstanding Science Trade Book, 1995 -- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1995 -- Texas Bluebonnet Award, Masterlist, 1996-97