2026 Best STEM Books
Book recommendations for educators, librarians, parents, and guardians of the best children’s books with STEM content in 2025.
CLIMATE: How Wladimir Köppen Studied Weather and Drew the First Climate Map
By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
Peter Willis
Peter Willis
ISBN: 9781629443058
Nonfiction, 7-12, STEM / STEAM
Design Thinking: A Guide to Innovation
By: Fred Estes
ISBN: 9798765608005
Nonfiction, Teen, STEM / STEAM
Detective Dogs: How Working Dogs Sniff Out Invasive Species
By: Alison Pearce Stevens
ISBN: 9780823455645
Nonfiction, 7-12, Animals
Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery
By: Colleen Paeff
Illustrated by:
Ji-hyuk Kim
Ji-hyuk Kim
ISBN: 9781665931847
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science / Nature
The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape
By: Amy Alznauer
Illustrated by:
Anna Bron
Anna Bron
ISBN: 9781536229479
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I. M. Pei
By: Jeanne Walker Harvey
Illustrated by:
Khoa Le
Khoa Le
ISBN: 9781665953337
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Great Pollinator Count
By: Susan Edwards Richmond
Illustrated by:
Stephanie Fizer Coleman
Stephanie Fizer Coleman
ISBN: 9781682636084
Fiction, 4-6, Animals
The Green Maowusu
By: Xuefei Duan
Illustrated by:
Xuefei Duan
Xuefei Duan
ISBN: 9798890632241
Fiction, 4-6, Science / Nature
Jeremy, the English Garden Snail: Heredity, Citizen Science, and #snaillove
By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
Olga Gonina
Olga Gonina
ISBN: 9781629442556
Nonfiction, 7-12, Animals
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
By: Megan Clendenan
Illustrated by:
Brittany Cicchese
Brittany Cicchese
ISBN: 9781623544805
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science / Nature
Many Voices: Building Erie, the Canal that Changed America
By: Laurie Lawlor
ISBN: 9780823455638
Nonfiction, 7-12, Technology / Inventions
Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement
By: Jenny Lacika
Illustrated by:
Anna Bron
Anna Bron
ISBN: 9781536230123
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb: Young Readers Edition of AMERICAN PROMETHEUS
By: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin; Adapted by Eric S. Singer
ISBN: 9780593856451
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites
By: Sandra Neil Wallace
Illustrated by:
Nancy Carpenter
Nancy Carpenter
ISBN: 9781534493339
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Safe Crossing
By: Kari Percival
ISBN: 9781797214566
Nonfiction, 4-6, Social Activism / Equality / Feminism
Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!: The Inventive Rube Goldberg—A Life in Comics, Contraptions, and Six Simple Machines
By: Catherine Thimmesh
Illustrated by:
Shanda McCloskey
Shanda McCloskey
ISBN: 9781452144221
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Spark: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone
By: Ainissa Ramirez
Illustrated by:
Setor Fiadzigbey
Setor Fiadzigbey
ISBN: 9781536225280
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and Her Arachnid World War II Army
By: Penny Parker Klostermann
Illustrated by:
Anne Lambelet
Anne Lambelet
ISBN: 9781662680359
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe
By: Amy S. Hansen and Wanda Díaz Merced
Illustrated by:
Rocio Arreola Mendoza
Rocio Arreola Mendoza
ISBN: 9781623544874
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater? Jacques Cousteau
By: Ned Wolfe
Illustrated by:
Caroline Hu
Caroline Hu
ISBN: 9780593385647
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Who Owns the Moon? And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space
By: Cynthia Levinson and Jennifer Swanson
ISBN: 9781682635377
Nonfiction, 7-12, Technology / Inventions
Zero! The Number That Almost Wasn’t
By: Sarah Albee
Illustrated by:
Chris Hsu
Chris Hsu
ISBN: 9781623544324
Nonfiction, 7-12, Math
