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The Frog Scientist

by Pamela S. Turner (Houghton Mifflin, 2009; Scientists in the Field series)
The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner

Tryone Hayes always loved frogs and wanted to be a scientist when he grew up. So he bacame a frog scientst! Now he studies how pesticides in water are affecting frogs, and gets to spend a lot of time outdoors catching frogs.  This is a great book about his life and what being a scientist is really like.