STEM Friday

September 6, 2024September 5, 2024

Menus for Meerkats and Other Hungry Animals

Menus for Meerkats and Other Hungry Animals
by Ben Hoare (Author) and Hui Skipp (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Meerkats don’t really need menus, but you can use the ones in this book to discover what ten different kinds of animals in various habitats all over the world like to eat. From blue whales to cobras and from koalas to dung beetles, these dietary habits will amaze you!

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August 23, 2024August 22, 2024

The Awesome Physics in Your Home

The Awesome Physics in Your Home
by The Amazing Theatre of Physics (Author) and Tomas Kopecky (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Discover the physics that surround you at home by exploring real-life situations in the kitchen, living room, garage, bathroom, and garden with safe, hands-on experiments for ages 9-12.

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August 16, 2024August 15, 2024

Kingdoms of Life

Kingdoms of Life
by Carly Allen-Fletcher (Author / Illustrator))
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Booktalk: Journey through the kingdoms of animals, plants, protists, fungi, archaea, and bacteria as you explore the wonders of nature through the science of classification.

Snippet: Life is all around us.

In the sky, the sea, and the soil, life exists in millions of different, incredible ways.

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August 9, 2024August 8, 2024

Wildfire: The Culture, Science, and Future of Fire

Wildfire: The Culture, Science, and Future of Fire
by Ferin Davis Anderson (Author) and Stephanie Sammartino McPherson (Author)
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Booktalk: Wildfire is a natural process that takes place worldwide. In dry conditions, a single spark can transform into a megafire that sweeps across the landscape, burning everything in its path. Despite fire’s deadly reputation, ecosystems such as forests and grasslands depend on it to clear out debris and promote new plant growth.

Discover the history of large-scale fire and what its future may look like as you examine how Indigenous people, farmers, and forestry departments have used fire to manage natural resources and how human development and climate change are impacting the frequency and intensity of wildfires. By delving into how fires start and burn, fire suppression and firefighting, and the ecological importance of burns, you can explore people’s long relationship with fire and reflect on fire’s regenerative benefits and destructive capabilities alike.

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August 2, 2024August 1, 2024

Measuring Me!

Measuring Me!
by Nicola Kent (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Discover amazing facts about the human body and explore measuring in a very personal way! A double-sided pull-out height chart can be found in a pocket inside the back cover.

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July 26, 2024July 25, 2024

Stones and Bones

Stones and Bones: Fossils and the stories they tell
by Rob Wilshaw (Author) and Sophie Williams (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Explore the incredible history of life on our planet told through the fossil record! Over the past four billion years, life on Earth has evolved from microscopic single-celled organisms to today’s incredible array of flora and fauna. In the course of this time, layer upon layer of life was buried in sediment, turning into a fossilized record of the planet’s history.

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July 19, 2024July 18, 2024

Always Beginning

Always Beginning: The Big Bang, the Universe, and You
by Candace Savage (Author) and Rachel Wada (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Explore the science behind the start of our universe and how we came to be a part of it, from the Big Bang and the beginning of life on Earth all the way up until today. Backmatter explaining the science includes a timeline of the origins of the universe through the ages of fish, reptiles, mammals, and humans.

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July 12, 2024July 11, 2024

Animals Near and Far

My new Focus on STEM column, Animals Near and Far, is in the free July Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist.

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July 5, 2024July 3, 2024

West Coast Wild Rainforest

West Coast Wild Rainforest
by Deborah Hodge (Author) and Karen Reczuch (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Step into the majestic rainforest of the Pacific west coast and discover a unique community of creatures thriving in an interconnected web of life.

Snippet: The rainforest is cool, rainy and foggy — and one of the wettest non-tropical places on Earth! Moisture-filled air coming off the ocean showers it with more than ten feet (three meters) of rain a year.

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June 28, 2024June 27, 2024

Tell Me About Oceans Board Book

Tell Me About Oceans Board Book
by Lisa Varchol Perron (Author) and Jennifer Falkner (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A child gets answers to their many questions about the ocean in this rhyming nonfiction board book.

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