Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Books
Octopuses Have Zero Bones: A Counting Book About Our Amazing World
by Anne Richardson (Author) and Andrea Antinori (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Starting with zero instead of one, this fact-filled counting book celebrates the numbers zero to nine and powers of ten numbers ten to nine billion.
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Count On Us!
by Gabi Snyder (Author) and Sarah Walsh (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Learn how a movement builds from one person to a billion in this A to Z environmental activism book. Readers count from 1 to 10 — and then in larger increments to a billion — as they learn new terms from “conservation” to “activism.” Inset boxes provide easy-to-understand definitions of additional new vocabulary words.
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Armor & Animals
by Liz Yohlin Baill (Author)
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Booktalk: What do knights in shining armor have to do with slimy snails and porcupines? A lot, actually! See how in this picture book comparing the armor collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the shells, scales, and spikes that protect animals.
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Everything Under the Sun
by Molly Oldfield (Author)
Booktalk: This massive compendium of information grew out of UK author Molly Oldfield’s podcast answering questions from curious children around the world. Here are 366 such questions, along with answers from experts in every imaginable field — one for every day of the year plus an extra one for leap years — with illustrations by a dozen different artists.
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Full of Life: Exploring Earth’s Biodiversity
by Isabel Thomas (Author) and Sara Gillingham (Artist)
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Booktalk: This guide to Earth’s Tree of Life – the reference tool used by scientists to organize the incredible variety of living things on our planet – helps young readers understand how every living creature, from the tiniest germ to the biggest blue whale, is part of one big family tree.
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The Real Science of Invisibility
by Christina Hill (Author)
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Booktalk: With the superpower of invisibility, you could do amazing magic tricks, play funny pranks, even sneak up on bad guys! How do fictional heroes with the power of invisibility do it? More important, how can humans do it themselves one day? Learn the real-life science behind the superpower and what scientists are doing to make that power a reality.
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The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits
by Rachel Poliquin (Author) and Clayton Hanmer (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Welcome to the weirdest museum you’ll ever explore–the one inside your body.
Did you know your amazing, incredible body is a walking, talking museum of evolution? Tour guides Wisdom Tooth and Disappearing Kidney lead readers through a wacky museum dedicated to vestigial structures: body parts that were essential to our ancestors but are no longer useful to us–even though they’re still hanging around.
From goosebumps and hiccups to exploding organs and monkey muscles, each room in the museum shows us that these parts have stories to tell us about our past. By the time we make it to the gift shop, we’ll understand that evolution is not only messy and imperfect, but also ongoing. Our bodies are constantly changing along with the environment we live in–and there’s so much that is still unknown, just waiting to be discovered.
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My new Focus on STEM column, Searching the Stars, is in the October Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.
Snippet: With NASA’s educational activities for the James Webb Space Telescope and these recent titles about vision, telescopes, and astronomy, you can bring the past -and the present- into your classroom or library.
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Gross FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Foul Facts
by Paige Towler (Author) and Andy Smith (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Discover facts about smelly sports, weird world records, rank rodents, vile Victorians, horrible medicine, gory gastronomy, and more! Every fact is linked to the next in a trail of information that guides readers through the book.
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Usha y la Gran Excavadora / Usha and the Big Digger
by Amitha Jagannath Knight (Author), Sandhya Prabhat (Illustrator), and Luisana Duarte Armendáriz (Translator)
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Booktalk: In this bilingual Spanish/English edition, when sisters Usha and Aarti look up at the stars, they see different things. Aarti sees the Big Dipper, but Usha sees the Big DIGGER. And cousin Gloria sees the Big Kite! Could they all be right? A playful introduction to geometry and spatial relationships, featuring Indian American characters and a note about cultures and constellations.
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A Usha le encantaba los camiones.
Los hacia chocar y rodar.
Usha loved trucks.
She made them bump and roll.
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