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When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex
by Toni Buzzeo (Author) and Diana Sudyka (Illustrator)

Booktalk: From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue’s honor, Sue the T. rex would be placed on permanent exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

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The Acadia Files: Book One, Summer Science
by Katie Coppens (Author) and Holly Hatam (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Acadia Greene wants answers. Who keeps stealing her blueberries just as they ripen on the bushes? Why is her hair curly? Why does the sun wake her up so early in the summer? Why does the tide submerge her sandcastles? Acadia doesn’t mean to do science, but she has questions and her parents refuse to simply give her the answers. “Conduct an experiment,” they tell her. “Use the scientific method.” So Acadia makes hypotheses, designs experiments, analyzes data, and draws conclusions. Acadia does science.

Snippet: “My blueberries are gone! Yesterday I had so many blueberries, and now there are no good ones left. There are only these little ones that are nowhere near ready to be picked.” Acadia crawls on her hands and knees, searching for any sign of dark blue on the ground beneath the bushes.