Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree by Sally M. Walker
Published by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) on March 6th 2018
ISBN: 1250125235
Pages: 144
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Once as wide as redwoods, these trees dominated the East Coast until the early 1900s. A bight came a wiped out most of these giants. What caused the death of the trees? A fungus would find a way into the tree's bark, bug bites, birds, broken limbs. Then kill the trees from the inside out. Scientists tried to cross breed American Chestnuts with Asian Chestnuts to get a more abundant crop. How to fix the problem came years later. They introduced a virus that killed the fungus.

Reviewed by Jeri Fitzpatrick, GNG Middle School, Gray