Category: middle grade

Blossom Origami
by Clover Robin (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: With 13 nature-inspired origami step-by-step patterns, this activity book has origami inspiration, original art, and extracts from well-loved nature poems, as well as 50 sheets of origami paper. The three difficulty levels are clearly marked and the QR code links aspiring origami artists to how-to videos that cover all pieces and steps in the book.

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The Six — Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts
by Loren Grush (Author) and Rebecca Stefoff (Author)
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Booktalk: Sally Ride may have been the first US woman in space, but did you know there were five other incredible American women who helped blaze the trail for female astronauts by her side?

When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots—a group women were also aggressively barred from—had the right stuff. But as the 1980s dawned so did new thinking, and six elite women scientists—Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon—set out to prove they had exactly the right stuff to become the first US women astronauts.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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