PRESS RELEASE

Backyard Bears: Conservation, Habitat Changes, and the Rise of Urban Wildlife

Date: 10/01/18 Asheville, NC

Asheville, North Carolina native, Amy Cherrix, announces the publication of her second non-fiction children’s book, Backyard Bears: Conservation, Habitat Changes, and the Rise of Urban Wildlife (grades 4-8), part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s award-winning Scientists in the Field series. The author will launch the book, about Asheville’s urban/suburban bear population, at a free public event on Sunday, October 28, 3PM, Malaprop’s Bookstore & Café, 55 Haywood Street, Asheville.

Join Amy in her hometown on an expedition with the wildlife biologists of the North Carolina Urban/Suburban Bear Study, investigating Asheville’s population of urban black bears.

Meet the researchers and citizens taking part in this amazing ecological story.

“Cherrix writes with affection about her hometown. An inviting example of scientific field work in a consistently appealing series,” raves a starred review in Kirkus Reviews. The book has also been honored as a Junior Library Guild selection, and a Fall Indie Next pick, as voted on by independent booksellers across the country.

Amy Cherrix loves science and telling true stories of lives hidden in plain sight. She is also the author of another book in the Scientists in the Field series: Eye of the Storm, NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code, (grades 5-12). When she isn’t storm chasing or searching for urban wildlife, Amy works as the children’s book buyer at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe in Asheville. Amy holds a master’s degree in children’s literature from Simmons College.

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Press Contact: Martha Jayne

Phone: 828-230-6692

Email: amycpublicity@gmail.com
Website: www.amycherrix.com