Author: Anastasia Suen

Anastasia Suen is the author (& ghostwriter) of 450+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose books for children, teens, and adults: board books, picture books, beginning readers, early chapter books, middle grade books, young adult books, and books for adults.
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Engineering: How the Six Simple Machines Support the World

Engineering: How the Six Simple Machines Support the World
by Carla Mooney (Author) and Lex Cornell (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Teen engineers learn how mechanical, structural, civil, and other types of engineering are based on the six simple machines that humans have been using for thousands of years. The screw, pulley, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, and lever are used to build roads, skyscrapers, bridges, engines, and even other tools. They are the building blocks on which more complicated machines are based.

Dive deep into the history of simple machines, from ancient times to present day, and learn the physics behind how they increase efficiency and productivity through mechanical advantage. Hands-on STEM activities encourage use of the engineering design process as teens brainstorm and build practical prototypes and explore how we might employ simple machines in the future.

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The author, Carla Mooney, is one of my former students.
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Open October call for manuscripts

Do you follow Sourcebooks Kids on Instagram? Here is a quote from a recent post:

📣Calling all children’s authors!

📖For the month of October, our editor Melissa Manlove is accepting UNAGENTED submissions!

🌟Melissa will choose ONE manuscript at random to read if you send multiple.
🌟We’re expecting a high number of submissions. If you do not hear back by the end of December, we have passed at this time.
🌟Email your submission to OpenOctober@sourcebooks.com.
🌟Check out Melissa’s manuscript wishlist at the link in our bio.

We can’t wait to read your stories📚💛

FYI: The Josephine book (with the award stickers) at the bottom of Melissa’s manuscript wishlist was written by Patricia Hruby Powell, one of my former students.

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