2017 Best STEM

Book recommendations for educators, librarians, parents, and guardians of the best children’s books with STEM content in 2016

 
Women Who Launched the Computer Age

Women Who Launched the Computer Age

By: Laurie Calkhoven
Illustrated by:
 Alyssa Petersen
ISBN: 9781481470476
 
Women of Steel and Stone

Women of Steel and Stone

By: Anna Lewis
ISBN: 9781613745083
 
Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions

Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions

By: Chris Barton
Illustrated by:
 Don Tate
ISBN: 9781580892971
 
A Global Warming Primer

A Global Warming Primer

By: Jeffrey Bennett
 
Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine

Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine

By: Laurie Wallmark
Illustrated by:
 April Chu
ISBN: 9781939547200
 
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science

By: Diane Stanley
Illustrated by:
 Jessie Hartland
ISBN: 9781481452496
 
Ada’s Ideas

Ada’s Ideas

By: Fiona Robinson
ISBN: 9781419718724
 
Ben Franklin’s Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention

Ben Franklin’s Big Splash

By: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrated by:
 S.D. Schindler
ISBN: 9781620914465
 
Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World

Breakthrough

By: Jake Andraka with Matthew Lysiak
ISBN: 9780062369659
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
Emmet’s Storm

Emmet’s Storm

By: Ann Rubino
Illustrated by:
 Ann Rubino
ISBN: 9781942247067
 
Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine

Fearless Flyer

By: Heather Lang
Illustrated by:
 Raul Colon
ISBN: 9781620916506
 
Genetic Engineering: Science, Technology, Engineering

Genetic Engineering

By: Michael Burgan
 
Green City

Green City

By: Allan Drummond
ISBN: 9780374379995
 
Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding

Hello Ruby

By: Linda Liukas
ISBN: 9781250065001
 
Inventions That Could Have Changed the World…But Didn’t!

Inventions That Could Have Changed the World…But Didn’t!

By: Joe Rhatigan
Illustrated by:
 Anthony Owsley
ISBN: 9781623540241
 
Red Madness

Red Madness

By: Gail Jarrow
ISBN: 9781590787328
 
Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler’s Atomic Bomb

Sabotage

By: Neal Bascomb
ISBN: 9780545732437
 
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

Six Dots

By: Jen Bryant
Illustrated by:
 Boris Kulikov
ISBN: 9780449813379
 
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor

Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea

By: Robert Burleigh
Illustrated by:
 Raúl Colón
ISBN: 9781481416009
 
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great

Steve Jobs

By: Jessie Hartland
ISBN: 9780307982957
 
Super Gear: Nanotechnology and Sports Team Up

Super Gear

By: Jennifer Swanson
ISBN: 9781580897204
 
Swap!

Swap!

By: Steve Light
Illustrated by:
 Steve Light
ISBN: 9780763679903
 
The Inventor’s Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford

The Inventor’s Secret

By: Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by:
 Jennifer Black Reinhardt
ISBN: 9781580896672
 
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation

The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring

By: Gilbert Ford
Illustrated by:
 Gilbert Ford
ISBN: 9781481450652
 
The Most Magnificent Thing

The Most Magnificent Thing

By: Ashley Spires
Illustrated by:
 Ashley Spires
ISBN: 9781554537044
 
The Secret Subway

The Secret Subway

By: Shana Corey
Illustrated by:
 Red Nose Studio
ISBN: 9780375870712
 
Ticktock Banneker’s Clock

Ticktock Banneker’s Clock

By: Shana Keller
Illustrated by:
 David C. Gardner
ISBN: 9781585369560
 
Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World

Trailblazers

By: Rachel Swaby
ISBN: 9780399553967
 
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees

Wangari Maathai

By: Franck Prévot
Illustrated by:
 Aurélia Fronty
ISBN: 9781580896269
 
Welcome to Mars

Welcome to Mars

By: Buzz Aldrin with Marianne Dyson
ISBN: 9781426322068
 
What Does It Mean To Be An Entrepreneur?

What Does It Mean To Be An Entrepreneur?

By: Rana DiOrio and Emma D. Dryden
Illustrated by:
 Ken Min
ISBN: 9781939775122
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