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Name: Swimming with Sharks

Full title: Swimming with Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark
Author: Heather Lang
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Genres/categories: Children, Non Fiction, Picture books, Science, Animals, History, Memoirs

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Before Eugenie Clark's groundbreaking research, most people thought sharks were vicious, blood-thirsty killers. From the first time she saw a shark in an aquarium, Japanese-American Eugenie was enthralled. Instead of frightening and ferocious eating machines, she saw sleek, graceful fish gliding through the water. After she became a scientist an unexpected career path for a woman in the 1940s she began taking research dives and training sharks, earning her the nickname "The Shark Lady."
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