Author: Anastasia Suen

Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer
by Lynne Cox (Author) and Richard Jones (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Inside every loggerhead turtle is genius: the ability to find their first home, no matter how far away. Follow one, from her birth on a beach in Australia…to her trip across an ocean filled with sharks and seahorses and much more…to her rescue from a net by a fisherman, who names her Yoshi…to her rehabilitation at an aquarium…to her record-breaking swim across the Indian Ocean to the beach on which she hatched, to lay her eggs.

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My new Focus on STEM column, Vision, is in the May Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Snippet: May is here and evidence of the “April showers bring May flowers” rhyme can be seen all around us. Even the books on the shelves invite us to look at the wonders of nature and be inspired to make a few wonders of our own.

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All Kinds of Animal Friends
by Sophy Henn (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Each animal friendship is special in its own unique way… just like humans! Learn about hermit crabs that go on adventures with sea anemones, how zebras and ostriches help support each other, and much more, in this celebration of friendship.

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Trees: Haiku from Roots to Leaves
by Sally M. Walker (Author) and Angela Mckay (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: From the giant tree ferns of the forests primeval to the hardy sycamores of today’s urban forests, experience the essence of trees through poems that engage with every season and stage of the life cycle, from seed to photosynthesis. Back matter includes a time line, facts about trees and different types of forests, as well as an author’s note, a glossary, and a select bibliography.

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Global: One fragile world. An epic fight for survival.
by Eoin Colfer (Author), Andrew Donkin (Author), and Giovanni Rigano (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Time is running out for Sami and Yuki.

Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian Ocean. They earn their living by fishing. But the ocean is rising and each day they bring back fewer and fewer fish.

Yuki lives in the far north of Canada where warming temperature are melting the ice. Polar bears have less food to hunt and are wandering into town looking for something to eat. Yuki is determined to do something to help the bears.

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Listen to the Language of the Trees: A story of how forests communicate underground
by Tera Kelley (Author) and Marie Hermansson (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A new seedling has sprouted. Discover how the other trees in the forest help it survive.

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Show and Tell! Great Graphs and Smart Charts: An Introduction to Infographics
by Stuart J. Murphy (Author) and Teresa Bellón (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Want to find the most popular meal in the cafeteria? Compare town sports enrollments? Or maybe you just want to know who burps the most in your family! Learn what line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, and pictographs are and how and when to use them to represent data in this project-based introduction.

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Gravity: Mass, Energy, and the Force that Holds Things Together with Hands-On Science
by Cindy Blobaum (Author) and Micah Rauch (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Scientists ages 8 to 12 explore the invisible but powerful force that is responsible for keeping the entire universe in place–including you! Gravity is the natural phenomenon that makes everything in the universe attracted to everything else. On Earth, that means gravity is why we fall down toward the ground, the reason we have tides, and why we weigh a certain number of pounds. Hands-on STEM activities and links to online resources and videos throughout the book.

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My new Focus on STEM column, Women’s History Month, is in the March Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Snippet: March is Women’s History Month. That’s a well-known fact. But did you know that March is also Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month? Item #3 on the “How to Observe Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month” list is “Share the stories of important women in the STEM field.” You can do that with these six picture book biographies for younger readers and three middle grade biographies for older readers.

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The Moon Tonight: Our Moon’s Journey Around Earth
by Jung Chang-hoon (Author), Jang Ho (Illustrator), and Paige Morris (Translator)
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Booktalk: In this picture book written by an astronomer, a father-daughter duo learn the science behind the twenty-nine-day lunar cycle and the moon’s four phases: crescent, quarter, full, and new.

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