Rise to the Sky: How the World’s Tallest Trees Grow Up
by Rebecca E. Hirsch (Author) and Mia Posada (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: What is the tallest living thing? It’s not an elephant, or a giraffe, or even a blue whale. It’s a tree! But how do they grow to be so tall?
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Great White Shark
by Claire Saxby (Author) and Cindy Lane (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Follow a female shark as she heads to warm waters for the sake of her young.
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Tractors (Machines at Work)
by Hal Rogers (Author)
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Booktalk: Find out about the many jobs a tractor can do, and learn about where they are important. Then try the “Tracking the Tractor” activity in the back of the book.
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The Wild Life of Animals
by Mike Barfield (Author) and Paula Bossio(Illustrator)
Booktalk: Laugh and learn as you take a peek into the hidden lives of all kinds of weird and wonderful animals from different habitats around the world in this nonfiction comic book book for middle grade. (Yes, that is a cube of poop in the snippet below!)
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Means of Transport That Changed The World
by Tom Velcovsky (Author), Stepanka Sekaninova (Author), and Martin Sodomka (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: We started our journey on boats and ended up in the space. Explore the world‘s most important milestones in the development of travel and transportation in this middle grade book.
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Where in the World Are You?
by Marie G. Rohde (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Where are you in the world? Can you imagine what your home would look like if you saw it from above and zoomed out further, and further, and further…? Join the mischievous pet cat on a journey of discovery and think about your place in the world.
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Stand as Tall as the Trees: How an Amazonian Community Protected the Rain Forest
by Patricia Gualinga (Author), Laura Resau (Author), and Vanessa Jaramillo (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Patricia (Paty) Gualinga grew up in her Kichwa village in the Amazon of Ecuador where mystical beings called Amazanga help protect the forest. Paty traveled away from home for school until she was called back–companies that said the government sold them property were destroying her people’s lands to look for oil. The Kichwa community worked with other Indigenous groups to bring the Ecuadorian government to the Court of Human Rights.
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Also available in Spanish as Con la cabeza en alto: Cómo una comunidad amazónica protegió la selva:
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From Here to There: A First Book of Maps
by Vivian French (Author) and Ya-Ling Huang (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: From routes to scale, a young child and her dad explore the world of maps in this picture book for ages 3-7.
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My new Focus on STEM column, Almost Invisible, is in the free July Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist.
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Water: How We Can Protect Our Freshwater
by Catherine Barr (Author) and Christiane Engel (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Worldwide pollution and climate change make it increasingly difficult for people and animals to find the clean water they need to survive. Find out what you can do to help during this Water Action Decade.
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