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A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon

A Computer Called Katherine

By: Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by:
Veronica Miller Jamison
ISBN: 9780316435178
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont’s Race Around the Eiffel Tower

A Dream of Flight

By: Jef Polivka and Rob Polivka
Illustrated by:
Rob Polivka
ISBN: 9780374306618
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
All in a Drop

All in a Drop

By: Lori Alexander
Illustrated by:
Vivien Mildenberger
ISBN: 9781328884206
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Born Just Right

Born Just Right

By: Jordan Reeves and Jen Lee Reeves
ISBN: 9781534428386
Nonfiction, 7-12, Memoir
 
Buzzing with Questions the Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

Buzzing with Questions the Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

By: Janice N. Harrington
Illustrated by:
Theodore Taylor III
ISBN: 9781629795584
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
 
Crayon Man

Crayon Man

By: Natascha Biebow
Illustrated by:
Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9781328866844
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
 
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World

Elon Musk

By: Anna Crowley Redding
ISBN: 9781250313621
Nonfiction, Teen, Science
 
First Dinosaur

First Dinosaur

By: Ian Lendler
Illustrated by:
C.M. Butzer
ISBN: 9781534427006
Nonfiction, 7-12 History
 
From an Idea to Lego: The Building Bricks Behind the World’s Largest Toy Company

From an Idea to Lego

By: Lowey Bundy Sichol
Illustrated by:
C.S. Jennings
ISBN: 9781328954930
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Full of Beans Henry Ford Grows a Car

Full of Beans Henry Ford Grows a Car

By: Peggy Thomas
Illustrated by:
Edwin Fotheringham
ISBN: 9781629796390
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
 
Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World

Guitar Genius

By: Kim Tomsic
Illustrated by:
Brett Helquist
ISBN: 9781452159195
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
How to Become and Accidental Genius

How to Become and Accidental Genius

By: Elizabeth MacLeod & Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by:
Jenn Playford
ISBN: 9781459816763
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future

Instructions Not Included

By: Tami Lewis Brown, Debbie Loren Dunn
Illustrated by:
Chelsea Beck
ISBN: 9781368011051
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Karl’s New Beak: 3-D Printing Builds a Bird a Better Life

Karl’s New Beak

By: Lela Nargi
Illustrated by:
Harriet Popham
ISBN: 9781684460267
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns The Heartland Into A Home

Prairie Boy

By: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrated by:
Christopher Silas Neal
ISBN: 9781629794402
nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
 
Samuel Morse, That’s Who!: The Story of the Telegraph and Morse Code

Samuel Morse, That’s Who!

By: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Illustrated by:
El Primo Ramón
ISBN: 9781627791304
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Save the Crash-test Dummies

Save the Crash-test Dummies

By: Jennifer Swanson
Illustrated by:
TeMika Grooms
ISBN: 9781682630228
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Saving the Tasmanian Devil

Saving the Tasmanian Devil

By: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
ISBN: 9780544991484
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge

Secret Engineer

By: Rachel Dougherty
ISBN: 9781250155320
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World

The Electric War

By: Mike Winchell
ISBN: 9781250120168
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
The House That Cleaned Itself: The True Story of Frances Gabe’s (Mostly) Marvelous Invention

The House That Cleaned Itself

By: Laura Dershewitz and Susan Romberg
Illustrated by:
Meghann Rader
ISBN: 9781943147656
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team

Titan and the Wild Boars

By: Susan Hood & Pathana Sornhiran
Illustrated by:
Dow Phumiruk
ISBN: 9780062907721
Nonfiction, 4-6, Action / Adventure
 
Ada Lovelace (The First Names Series)

Ada Lovelace (The First Names Series)

By: Ben Jeapes
Illustrated by:
Nick Ward
ISBN: 9781419740756
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team

All Thirteen

By: Christina Soontornvat
ISBN: 9781536209457
Nonfiction, Teen, Action / Adventure
 
Beastly Bionics: Rad Robots, Brilliant Biomimicry, and Incredible Inventions Inspired by Nature

Beastly Bionics

By: Jennifer Swanson
ISBN: 9781426336737
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM

Changing the Equation

By: Tonya Bolden
ISBN: 9781419707346
Nonfiction, Teen, Diversity
 
Galileo! Galileo!

Galileo! Galileo!

By: Holly Trechter and Jane Donovan
Illustrated by:
Holly Trechter and Jane Donovan
ISBN: 9781939360083
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Gnu and Shrew

Gnu and Shrew

By: Danny Schnitzlein
Illustrated by:
Anca Sandu
ISBN: 9781682631461
Fiction, 4-6, Action / Adventure
 
Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747

Jumbo

By: Chris Gall
Illustrated by:
Chris Gall
ISBN: 9781250155801
Nonfiction, 4-6, History
 
Machines in Motion: The Amazing History of Transportation

Machines in Motion

By: Tom Jackson
Illustrated by:
Chris Mould
ISBN: 9781547603374
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Machines That Think!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #2

Machines That Think!

By: Don Brown
ISBN: 9781419740985
Nonfiction, Teen, Science
 
Marie’s Ocean: Marie Tharp Maps the Mountains Under the Sea

Marie’s Ocean

By: Josie James
Illustrated by:
Josie James
ISBN: 9781250214737
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Mission to the Bottom of the Sea

Mission to the Bottom of the Sea

By: Jan Leyssens
Illustrated by:
Joachim Sneyers
ISBN: 9781605375311
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Newton and Curie: The Science Squirrels

Newton and Curie

By: Daniel Kirk
ISBN: 9781419737480
Fiction, 4-6, Science
 
Numbers in Motion: Sophie Kowalevski, Queen of Mathematics

Numbers in Motion

By: Laurie Wallmark
Illustrated by:
Yevgenia Nayberg
ISBN: 9781939547637
Nonfiction, 7-12, Math
 
Smelly Kelly and His Super Senses: How James Kelly’s Nose Saved the New York City Subway

Smelly Kelly and His Super Senses

By: Beth Anderson
Illustrated by:
Jenn Harney
ISBN: 9781684373994
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Spaceman (Adaptation for Young Readers): The True Story of a Young Boy’s Journey to Becoming an Astronaut

Spaceman (Adaptation for Young Readers)

By: Mike Massimino
ISBN: 9780593120866
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
Who Gives a Poop?: Surprising Science from One End to the Other

Who Gives a Poop?

By: Heather L. Montgomery
Illustrated by:
Iris Gottlieb
ISBN: 9781547603473
Nonfiction, 7-12, Health
 
Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane

Wood, Wire, Wings

By: Kirsten Larson
Illustrated by:
Tracy Subisak
ISBN: 9781629799384
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Work It, Girl:  Blast Off Into Space Like Mae Jemison

Work It, Girl

By: Caroline Moss
Illustrated by:
Sinem Erkas
ISBN: 9780711245150
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
The Polio Pioneer

The Polio Pioneer

By: Linda Elovitz Marshall
Illustrated by:
Lisa Anchin
ISBN: 9780525646518
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Amara and the Bats

Amara and the Bats

By: Emma Reynolds
Illustrated by:
Emma Reynolds
ISBN: 9781534469013
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Artificial Intelligence (STEAM & Me Series)

Artificial Intelligence (STEAM & Me Series)

By: Dinah Williams
ISBN: 9781946260871
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World

Benoit Mandelbrot

By: Robert Black
ISBN: 9780898246865
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
Bicycle: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea

Bicycle

By: Lori Haskins Houran
Illustrated by:
Aaron Cushley
ISBN: 9781635923940
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Bones Unearthed (Creepy and True #3)

Bones Unearthed (Creepy and True #3)

By: Kerrie Logan Hollihan
ISBN: 9781419755354
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid

Building Zaha

By: Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Illustrated by:
Victoria Tentler-Krylov
ISBN: 9781338282832
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

Classified

By: Traci Sorell
Illustrated by:
Natasha Donovan
ISBN: 9781541579149
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars

Code Breaker, Spy Hunter

By: Laurie Wallmark
Illustrated by:
Brooke Smart
ISBN: 9781419739637
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood’s Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife

Cougar Crossing

By: Meeg Pincus
Illustrated by:
Alexander Vidal
ISBN: 9781534461857
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Eat Bugs!: Project Startup #1

Eat Bugs!

By: Laura D'Asaro, Rose Wang, and Heather Alexander
Illustrated by:
Vanessa Flores
ISBN: 9780593096178
Fiction, 7-12, Science
 
Einstein: The Fantastic Journey of a Mouse Through Space and Time

Einstein

By: Torben Kuhlmann
Illustrated by:
Torben Kuhlmann
ISBN: 9780735844445
Fiction, 7-12, Animals
 
From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves

From Here to There

By: Vivian Kirkfield
Illustrated by:
Gilbert Ford
ISBN: 9781328560919
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Glasses: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea

Glasses

By: Lori Haskins Houran
Illustrated by:
John Joven
ISBN: 9781635924251
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem

The Great Stink

By: Colleen Paeff
Illustrated by:
Nancy Carpenter
ISBN: 9781534449299
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Lady Bird Johnson, That’s Who!

Lady Bird Johnson, That’s Who!

By: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Illustrated by:
Ginnie Hsu
ISBN: 9781250240361
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest

The Leaf Detective

By: Heather Lang
Illustrated by:
Jana Christy
ISBN: 9781684371778
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla

A Life Electric

By: Azadeh Westergaard
Illustrated by:
Júlia Sardà
ISBN: 9780593114605
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Light Bulb: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea

Light Bulb

By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Illustrated by:
Stephanie Dehennin
ISBN: 9781635923964
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi!

Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi!

By: Art Coulson
Illustrated by:
Madelyn Goodnight
ISBN: 9781623542030
Fiction, 4-6, Math
 
Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum

Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum

By: Natasha Yim
Illustrated by:
Violet Kim
ISBN: 9781623541309
Fiction, 4-6, Math
 
Maxine Greatest Garden Ever

Maxine Greatest Garden Ever

By: Ruth Spiro
Illustrated by:
Holly Hatam
ISBN: 9780399186301
Fiction, 4-6, Science
 
Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature

Mimic Makers

By: Kristen Nordstrom
Illustrated by:
Paul Boston
ISBN: 9781580899475
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries: Ten Interactive Adventures in Mathematical Wonderland

Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries

By: Eugenia Cheng
Illustrated by:
Aleksandra Artymowska
ISBN: 9781536217100
Nonfiction, 7-12, How-to / Activity
 
Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica

Race to the Bottom of the Earth

By: Rebecca E. F. Barone
ISBN: 9781250257802
Nonfiction, 7-12, Action / Adventure
 
Scene Of The Crime: Tracking Down Criminals with Forensic Science

Scene Of The Crime

By: HP Newquist
ISBN: 9780451476463
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist

Secrets of the Sea

By: Evan Griffith
Illustrated by:
Joanie Stone
ISBN: 9780358244325
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
A Shot in the Arm!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #3

A Shot in the Arm!

By: Don Brown
ISBN: 9781419750014
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Someone Builds the Dream

Someone Builds the Dream

By: Lisa Wheeler
ISBN: 9781984814333
Fiction, 4-6, Science
 
The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe

The Stuff Between the Stars

By: Sandra Nickel
Illustrated by:
Aimée Sicuro
ISBN: 9781419736261
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

Thank You, Dr. Salk!

By: Dean Robbins
Illustrated by:
Mike Dutton
ISBN: 9780374313913
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Uma Wimple Charts Her House

Uma Wimple Charts Her House

By: Reif Larsen and Ben Gibson
ISBN: 9780593181188
Fiction, 4-6, Concepts
 
Upstream, Downstream: Exploring Watershed Connections

Upstream, Downstream

By: Rowena Rae
ISBN: 9781459823921
Fiction, 7-12, Science
 
What Is Nintendo?

What Is Nintendo?

By: Gina Shaw and Who HQ
Illustrated by:
Andrew Thomson
ISBN: 9780593093795
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Wonder Women of Science: Twelve Geniuses Who Are Currently Rocking Science, Technology, and the World

Wonder Women of Science

By: Tiera Fletcher and Ginger Rue
Illustrated by:
Sally Wern Comport
ISBN: 9781536207347
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South

American Murderer

By: Gail Jarrow
ISBN: 9781684378159
Nonfiction, Teen, Mental/Physical Health
 
Bear Builds a House

Bear Builds a House

By: Maxwell Eaton, III
Illustrated by:
Maxwell Eaton, III
ISBN: 9780823447145
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions

Lion Lights

By: Richard Turere and Shelly Pollock
Illustrated by:
Sonia Possentini
ISBN: 9780884488859
Nonfiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
Show and Tell! Great Graphs and Smart Charts: An Introduction to Infographics

Show and Tell! Great Graphs and Smart Charts

By: Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrated by:
Teresa Bellón
ISBN: 9781580898232
Nonfiction, 7-12, Math
 
Superpower?: The Wearable-Tech Revolution

Superpower?

By: Elaine Kachala
Illustrated by:
Belle Wuthrich
ISBN: 9781459828278
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Action!: How Movies Began

Action!

By: Meghan McCarthy
Illustrated by:
Meghan McCarthy
ISBN: 9781534452305
Nonfiction, 4-6, Music / Art
 
The Amazing World of Video Game Development

The Amazing World of Video Game Development

By: Denis Galanin
Illustrated by:
Denis Galanin
ISBN: 9781641707497
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space

Blast Off!

By: Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by:
Sally Wern Comport
ISBN: 9781684372416
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession

Blips on a Screen

By: Kate Hannigan
Illustrated by:
Zachariah Ohora
ISBN: 9780593306710
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Break Down!

Break Down!

By: Mara Grunbaum
ISBN:  9781426373053
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Concrete: From the Ground Up

Concrete

By: Larissa Theule
Illustrated by:
Steve Light
ISBN: 9781536212501
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies

Edward Lorenz and the Chaotic Butterflies

By: Robert Black
Illustrated by:
Christopher Tice
ISBN: 9780880927857
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
How Science Saved the Eiffel Tower

How Science Saved the Eiffel Tower

By: Emma Bland Smith
Illustrated by:
Lia Visirin
ISBN: 9781684464784
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
How to Hear the Universe: Gaby González and the Search for Einstein’s Ripples in Space-Time

How to Hear the Universe

By: Patricia Valdez
Illustrated by:
Sara Palacios
ISBN: 9781984894595
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Imhotep of Ancient Kemet

Imhotep of Ancient Kemet

By: Ekiuwa Aire
Illustrated by:
Anastasia Kyrpenko and Simbarashe Langton Vera
ISBN: 9781777117993
Nonfiction, 4-6, History
 
In Our Garden

In Our Garden

By: Pat Zietlow Miller
Illustrated by:
Melissa Crowton
ISBN: 9781984812100
Fiction, 4-6, Science
 
The Mystery of the Monarchs: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch Migration

The Mystery of the Monarchs

By: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrated by:
Erika Meza
ISBN: 9781984829566
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
No Boundaries: 25 Women Explorers and Scientists Share Adventures, Inspiration, and Advice

No Boundaries

By: Gabby Salazar and Clare Fieseler
ISBN: 9781426371769
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Penny, the Engineering Tail of the Fourth Little Pig

Penny, the Engineering Tail of the Fourth Little Pig

By: Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Johannes
Illustrated by:
Hannah Marks
ISBN: 9781684464814
Fiction, 4-6, Science
 
Science Comics: Bridges: Engineering Masterpieces

Science Comics

By: Dan Zettwoch
ISBN: 9781250216892
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Sleuth & Solve: Science

Sleuth & Solve

By: Ana Gallo
Illustrated by:
Victor Escandell
ISBN: 9781797214559
Fiction, 7-12, Science
 
Something Great

Something Great

By: Jeanette Bradley
Illustrated by:
Jeanette Bradley
ISBN: 9781646141715
Fiction, 7-12, Concepts
 
What Is Math?

What Is Math?

By: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Illustrated by:
Sachiko Yoshikawa
ISBN: 9780316337779
Nonfiction, 4-6, Math
 
Zhang Heng and the Incredible Earthquake Detector

Zhang Heng and the Incredible Earthquake Detector

By: Randel McGee
Illustrated by:
Randel McGee
ISBN: 9781641701686
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Before Colors: Where Pigments and Dyes Come From

Before Colors

By: Annette Bay Pimentel
Illustrated by:
Madison Safer
ISBN: 9781419757068
Nonfiction, 7-12, Music / Art
 
The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America

The Brilliant Calculator

By: Jan Lower
Illustrated by:
Susan Reagan
ISBN: 9781662680069
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Building a Dream: How the Boys of Koh Panyee Became Champions

Building a Dream

By: Darshana Khiani
Illustrated by:
Dow Phumiruk
ISBN: 9780802855473
Nonfiction, 7-12, Sports / Games / Recreation
 
Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Takes Flight

By: Doreen Rappaport
Illustrated by:
Oliver Dominguez
ISBN: 9780759554948
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Extra Life (Young Readers Adaptation)

Extra Life (Young Readers Adaptation)

By: Steven Johnson
ISBN: 9780593351499
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
 
Friend of Numbers: The Life of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan

Friend of Numbers

By: Priya Narayanan
Illustrated by:
Satwik Gade
ISBN: 9780802856081
Nonfiction, 7-12, Math
 
George Washington’s Engineer: How Rufus Putnam Won the Siege of Boston without Firing a Shot

George Washington’s Engineer

By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
Terry Kole
ISBN: 9781629442204
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Giraffe Math

Giraffe Math

By: Stephen Swinburne
Illustrated by:
Geraldo Valério
ISBN: 9780316346771
Nonfiction, 4-6, Math
 
A Girl Can Build Anything

A Girl Can Build Anything

By: E.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Pat Zietlow Miller
Illustrated by:
Keisha Morris
ISBN: 9780593463741
Fiction, 4-6, Social Activism / Equality / Feminism
 
Hidden Systems (Graphic Novel)

Hidden Systems (Graphic Novel)

By: Dan Nott
ISBN: 9780593125366
Nonfiction, Teen, History
 
How to Spacewalk : Step-by-Step with Shuttle Astronauts

How to Spacewalk

By: Michael J. Rosen, Kathryn D. Sullivan
Illustrated by:
Michael J. Rosen
ISBN: 9781536226218
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever

Jerry Changed the Game!

By: Don Tate
Illustrated by:
Cherise Harris
ISBN: 9781665919081
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine: Josephine Cochrane’s Bright Invention Makes a Splash

Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine

By: Kate Hannigan
Illustrated by:
Sarah Green
ISBN: 9781635926217
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Masked Hero

Masked Hero

By: Shan Woo Liu
Illustrated by:
Lisa Wee
ISBN: 9781536228984
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story

Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion

By: Dave Eggers
Illustrated by:
Júlia Sardà
ISBN: 9781536215885
Nonfiction, 4-6, STEM / STEAM
 
Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karikó and the Race for the Future of Vaccines

Never Give Up

By: Debbie Dadey
Illustrated by:
Juliana Oakley
ISBN: 9781728456331
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Plague-Busters!

Plague-Busters!

By: Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal
Illustrated by:
Adrian Teal
ISBN: 9781547606030
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
 
Rooting for Plants: the Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector

Rooting for Plants

By: Janice N. Harrington
Illustrated by:
Theadore Taylor III
ISBN: 9781662680199
Nonfiction, 7-12, BIPOC Characters and Creators
 
Santiago Saw Things Differently : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Artist, Doctor, Father of Neuroscience

Santiago Saw Things Differently

By: Christine Iverson
Illustrated by:
Luciano Lozano
ISBN: 9781536224535
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses

Sew Sister

By: Elise Matich
Illustrated by:
Elise Matich
ISBN: 9780884489825
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Transported: 50 Vehicles That Changed the World

Transported

By: Matt Ralphs
Illustrated by:
Rui Ricardo
ISBN: 9798887770208
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
American Wings—Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

American Wings—Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

By: Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
ISBN: 9780593323984
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

By: Edited by Avery Elizabeth Hurt
ISBN: 9781534509511
Fiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
 
Bounce!

Bounce!

By: Sarah Albee
Illustrated by:
Eileen Ryan Ewen
ISBN: 9781623543792
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Building a Beak—How a Toucan’s Rescue Inspired the World

Building a Beak—How a Toucan’s Rescue Inspired the World

By: Becca McMurdie
Illustrated by:
Diana Hernández
ISBN: 9781645678687
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Calculating Chimpanzees, Brainy Bees, and Other Animals with Mind-Blowing Mathematical Abilities

Calculating Chimpanzees, Brainy Bees, and Other Animals with Mind-Blowing Mathematical Abilities

By: Stephanie Gibeault
Illustrated by:
Jaclyn Sinquett
ISBN: 9781536230017
Nonfiction, 7-12, Animals
 
Codebreaker Charlotte

Codebreaker Charlotte

By: Cedar Wang
Illustrated by:
Cedar Wang
ISBN: 9781605379999
Fiction, 4-6, Historical Fiction
 
Else B. in the Sea—The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the Deep

Else B. in the Sea—The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the Deep

By: Jeanne W. Harvey
Illustrated by:
Melodie Stacey
ISBN: 9781949480283
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
The Enigma Girls—How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

The Enigma Girls—How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

By: Candace Fleming
ISBN: 9781338749571
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube

Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube

By: Kerry Aradhya
Illustrated by:
Kara Kramer
ISBN: 9781682636640
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Evidence! How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera

Evidence! How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera

By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by:
Nik Henderson
ISBN: 9780593426814
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
The Fabulous Fannie Farmer—Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook

The Fabulous Fannie Farmer—Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook

By: Emma Bland Smith
Illustrated by:
Susan Reagan
ISBN: 9781635926125
Nonfiction, 4-6, Food / Cooking
 
How Do You Turn Data into Drawings? A Statistics Book about Graphs and Data

How Do You Turn Data into Drawings? A Statistics Book about Graphs and Data

By: Clayton Grider
Illustrated by:
Srimalie Bassani
ISBN: 9781486729708
Nonfiction, 7-12, Math
 
How to Explain Robotics to a Grown-Up

How to Explain Robotics to a Grown-Up

By: Ruth Spiro
Illustrated by:
Teresa Martínez
ISBN: 9781623543198
Nonfiction, 4-6, Careers / Hobbies
 
The Iguanodon’s Horn

The Iguanodon’s Horn

By: Sean Rubin
ISBN: 9780063239210
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science / Nature
 
The Little Green Swing (Little Ruby’s Big Ideas)

The Little Green Swing (Little Ruby’s Big Ideas)

By: Brenda Maier
Illustrated by:
Sonia Sánchez
ISBN: 9781338816198
Fiction, 4-6, Science / Nature
 
Planning Grandma’s Party—Measurements, Fractions, and Fun

Planning Grandma’s Party—Measurements, Fractions, and Fun

By: Lenka Chytilova/Helena Harastova
Illustrated by:
Xiana Teimoy
ISBN: 9788000072869
Nonfiction, 7-12, Math
 
The Shape of Things—How Mapmakers Picture Our World

The Shape of Things—How Mapmakers Picture Our World

By: Dean Robbins
Illustrated by:
Matt Tavares
ISBN: 9780593479254
Nonfiction, 4-6, History
 
Skybound! Starring Mary Myers as Carlotta, Daredevil Aeronaut and Scientist

Skybound! Starring Mary Myers as Carlotta, Daredevil Aeronaut and Scientist

By: Sue Ganz-Schmitt
Illustrated by:
Iacopo Bruno
ISBN: 9781635928150
Nonfiction, 4-6, Social Activism / Equality / Feminism
 
Sustainable Structures—15 Eco-Conscious Buildings Around the World

Sustainable Structures—15 Eco-Conscious Buildings Around the World

By: Kate McMillan
ISBN: 9780823455669
Nonfiction, 7-12, Art / Performing Arts
 
Unlocking the Universe

Unlocking the Universe

By: Suzanne Slade
ISBN: 9781623544591
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
 
Up Periscope! How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding

Up Periscope! How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding

By: Jennifer Swanson
Illustrated by:
Veronica Miller Jamison
ISBN: 9780316565486
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Urban Coyotes

Urban Coyotes

By: Mary Kay Carson
Illustrated by:
Tom Uhlman
ISBN: 9780063271470
Nonfiction, 7-12, Animals
 
Whirligigs—The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination

Whirligigs—The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination

By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by:
Edwin Fotheringham
ISBN: 9781662680410
Nonfiction, 4-6, Art / Performing Arts
 
The Wild River and the Great Dam: The Construction of Hoover Dam and the Vanishing Colorado River

The Wild River and the Great Dam

By: Simon Boughton
ISBN: 9780316380744
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Wildlife Crossings—Protecting Animal Pathways Around the World

Wildlife Crossings—Protecting Animal Pathways Around the World

By: Catherine Barr
Illustrated by:
Christiane Engel
ISBN: 9781536236255
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science / Nature
 
A Window into the Ocean Twilight Zone

A Window into the Ocean Twilight Zone

By: Michelle Cusolito
ISBN: 9781623543020
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science / Nature
 
Yumbo Gumbo

Yumbo Gumbo

By: Keila V. Dawson
Illustrated by:
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ISBN: 9781623543259
Fiction, 4-6, Math
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