Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
by Mabel Robinson
Nonfiction · ages 8–12 · 720L (~4th grade) · 312 pages · 2018
Why we'd hand it over
A vivid, movement-filled biography that makes a 19th-century naturalist's obsessions contagious—kids who like adventure and science will chase Agassiz up mountains and across glaciers.