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By Kim Stanley Robinson. 2020
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to…
protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its storyBy Rebecca Green, Elizabeth Suneby. 2018
When his mother is forced to cook indoors due to the monsoon season in Bangladesh, young Iqbal decides the school…
district's science fair is the perfect time to create a stove that doesn't produce smoke and harmful fumes. For grades 2-4. 2018By Adam Rex, Laurie Keller. 2019
Just after learning that Earth's scientists no longer consider him a planet, an unhappy Pluto takes a visitor from Earth…
on a tour of the solar system, sharing facts along the way. For grades K-3. 2019By Erica Salcedo, Joy Keller. 2019
A collection of fun and amazing facts about the world of fungi, from the secrets of a fairy circle to…
the toppings on a pizza. Includes an interview with a mycologist, a scientist who studies fungi. For grades K-3. 2019By T. Neill Anderson. 2013
Four stories featuring historical disasters. In City of the Dead, the fate of the residents of Galveston, Texas hangs in…
the balance as floodwaters rise during the great hurricane in 1900. Also includes Ocean of Fire, People of the Plague, and Massacre of the Miners. For grades 5-8. 2015By Patrick O'Brien. 2009
Describes a future trip that a child might take to Mars: taking a space elevator to a space station, traveling…
in a rocket, wearing a space suit, and learning about the scientific search for Martian life. Discusses the Mars environment and a habitat created for humans. For grades 2-4. 2009By Clive Gifford. 2009
Discusses the accomplishments of Archimedes, Galileo, Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Isambard K. Brunel, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Glenn…
Curtiss, and Sergei Korolev--ten pioneers in the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and electricity. Features "life links" that describe the ways one inventor's work influenced another's. For grades 4-7. 2009By Jeff Corwin. 2010
Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Lucy join their parents on a weeklong research trip to Alaska. Benjamin observes the…
effects of climate change on glaciers and animals in a report for his school in Florida. For grades 2-4. 2010By Margaret Wise Brown, Leo and Diane Dillon. 2003
Two trains are heading west. One is streamlined, the other small and old. On their parallel journeys, the trains encounter…
rivers, hills, snow, and dust storms, but neither is thwarted. But look closer and see that these two trains, though similar in many ways, have a surprising difference: one is the real thing, traversing the countryside, and the other is a toy, making its way across rug fringe "tracks," along the edge of a bathtub, through a tunnel made from a book, and past a broom and dust pan. For grades pres-school to kindergarten. For preschool-grade 2. 1977By Stef Wade, Melanie Demmer. 2018
By Kristen Foote. 2017
How to Survive as a Firefly provides a unique take on insect science that will entertain and educate in and…
out of the classroom. Full of opportunities for extended learning, this book includes fun facts hidden throughout the hilarious illustrated story - and after, a glossary of important terms and some real photos of fireflies. If you've ever wondered how these fascinating beetles grow and glow, and you like to laugh while you learn, this book is for you! For grades K-3By Brenda Z. Guiberson, Ilya Spirin. 2008
By Michelle Robinson, Rebecca Ashdown. 2016
By Janet Nolan, Marie Lafrance. 2010
By Ashley Wolff, Mary McKenna Siddals. 2010
By Tony Johnston, Elisa Kleven. 2005
By Michael Tyler, David Lee Csicsko. 2005
By Laszlo Bock. 2015
Laszlo Bock, head of the People Operations at Google, says "We spend more time working than doing anything else in…
life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." Bock believes in striking a balance between creativity and structure that can lead to success in quality of life as well as market share. He wants people to reawaken the joy in what they doBy Bert Kitchen. 1995
By Fran Manushkin, Lauren Tobia. 2015