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2022 Best STEM Books

Book recommendations for educators, librarians, parents, and guardians of the best children’s books with STEM content in 2021

 
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
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