Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Books
Summer Green to Autumn Gold: Uncovering Leaves’ Hidden Colors
by Mia Posada (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: Find out why leaves change color in autumn. Back matter offers additional scientific details as well as suggested further reading and links to hands-on activities.
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Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys
by Mike Unwin (Author) and Jenni Desmond (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Animals of all shapes and sizes make epic journeys across our planet, through harsh weather, avoiding hungry predators, in their efforts to survive. Travel around the globe with some of the world’s most incredible animals and discover their unique migration stories.
Follow the emperor penguin through snow, ice and bitter temperatures; watch as the great white shark swims 10,000 km in search of seals; track huge herds of elephants, on their yearly hunt for water and be amazed at the millions of red crabs, migrating across Christmas Island.
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POLE TO POLE
The Arctic tern travels farther than any other–all the way down the Atlantic Ocean to the Antarctic. While it’s winter in the Arctic, it’s summer in the Antarctic. So with twenty-four hours of daylight there, the tern can keep fishing as long as it likes.
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My new Focus on STEM column: More Summer Travel is in the August Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.
Booktalk: Celebrate two historic travel achievements with a summer travel book display and activity center.
Snippet: This past July, we celebrated the first moon landing that happened fifty years ago. Fifty years prior to that, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown flew an airplane with an open cockpit through fog and ice from Newfoundland to Ireland in the first nonstop, transatlantic flight. And it has now been five hundred summers since Ferdinand Magellan and his crew of 270 left Spain in five ships on their quest to circumnavigate the globe.
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Is 2 a Lot?: An Adventure With Numbers
by Annie Watson (Author) and Rebecca Evans (Illustrator)
Booktalk: While Joey’s mom explains the context of numbers in vivid ways, Joey’s imagination transforms their ordinary car ride into a magical odyssey through a land of make-believe.
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One day Joey had a very important question.
“Is 2 a lot?” he asked his mommy.
His mommy thought for a moment. Then she said,
“Well, TWO is not a lot of pennies . . .”
[TURN THE PAGE]
“but TWO is a lot of smelly skunks.”
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If You Love Dolphins, You Could Be…
by May Nakamura (Author) and Natalie Kwee (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Do you love dolphins and the ocean? Then you could be a marine biologist, an aquatic veterinarian, or an underwater filmmaker! Learn about these careers and more in this Level 2 beginning reader!
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Ocean: Secrets of the Deep
by Sabrina Weiss (Author) and Giulia De Amicis (Illustrator)
Booktalk: From clown fish to killer whales and sunlit coral reefs to smoking deep sea vents, welcome to our great global ocean! Discover menacing sharks, playful dolphins, clownfish, penguins, turtles, whales, shimmering jellyfish, gargantuan giant squid, and more . . .
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
by Brian Floca (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: Now with eight additional pages of brand-new art and more in-depth information about the historic moon landing, here is the flight of Apollo 11 . . .
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Trees: A Rooted History
by Piotr Socha (Author / Illustrator), Wojciech Grajkowski (Author), and Anna Burgess (Translator)
Booktalk: Go beyond the basics and explore the important roles trees play in our ecosystem, take an up-close-and-personal look at the parts of trees (from roots to leaves), and unpack the cultural impact of trees from classification systems (like family trees) to art forms (like bonsai trees). Part botany, part history, part cultural anthropology!
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Marty’s Mission: An Apollo 11 Story
by Judy Young (Author) and David Miles (Illustrator)
Booktalk: It’s 1969 and Marty’s family lives on the U.S. island of Guam, where his father manages the NASA tracking station. It’s important work and never more so than during the Apollo 11 space mission, where the tracking station relays signals back and forth between the astronauts and Mission Control in Houston, Texas. Along with the rest of the world, Marty listens to every mission update, including the historic landing on the moon and astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first steps. But during Apollo 11’s return to Earth, something goes wrong. There is a problem with the tracking station’s antenna during the final hours of the mission. The problem must be resolved–the antenna is the only way Mission Control can communicate with the astronauts before Apollo 11 splashes down. Marty finds himself playing a key role in helping bring the craft safely back to Earth. Based on actual events
Snippet: “Why do you need me?” Marty asked.
“We think it’s a bearing, but we don’t have time to take the antenna apart and replace it,” Dad said.
“What’s a bearing?” Marty asked.
“A ring with metal balls encased inside, like this.” Dad took a bearing from a box and showed it to Marty. “The balls have to roll for the antenna to move, but they’re stuck. We hope if we pack the bearing with grease, it will work again. Trouble is, our arms are too big to reach inside. Do you think you can do it?”
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Dogs in Space
by Vix Southgate (Author) and Iris Deppe (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Meet Belka and Strelka, two stray dogs from Moscow who, in1960, became the first animals to orbit Earth and return home safely.
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