Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2021
Resources for a selection of titles recommended since 2005 -- recognizing outstanding science trade books
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- 3,289 Resources including
- 234 Videos
- 93 Book Readings
- 299 Lesson Plans
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Showing 1-48 of 301 book results
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton and Don Tate
(Commended, 2017)
37 Resources11 Awards
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
(Commended, 2011)
30 Resources8 Awards
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
by Helaine Becker and Dow Phumiruk
(Commended, 2019)
30 Resources9 Awards
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
by Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy
(Commended, 2019)
27 Resources10 Awards
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
by Laurie Wallmark and April Chu
(Commended, 2016)
26 Resources7 Awards
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
by Jess Keating and Marta Álvarez Miguéns
(Winner, 2018)
26 Resources6 Awards
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
(Commended, 2011)
25 Resources7 Awards
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara McClintock
(Commended, 2019)
25 Resources11 Awards
The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest ...
(Commended, 2014)
24 Resources7 Awards
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
(Commended, 2019)
24 Resources8 Awards
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
by Katherine Applegate and G. Brian Karas
(Commended, 2015)
23 Resources6 Awards
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet
by Elizabeth Rusch and Teresa Martínez
(Commended, 2020)
23 Resources10 Awards
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
(Commended, 2006)
22 Resources8 Awards
Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
(Commended, 2015)
21 Resources7 Awards
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
(Commended, 2015)
21 Resources7 Awards
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
(Commended, 2007)
20 Resources5 Awards
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
(Commended, 2011)
20 Resources6 Awards
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
(Commended, 2013)
20 Resources6 Awards
Over and Under the Pond
by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
(Commended, 2018)
19 Resources4 Awards
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor
by Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu
(Commended, 2020)
19 Resources3 Awards
Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born
by Miranda Paul and Jason Chin
(Commended, 2020)
19 Resources5 Awards
Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM
by Tonya Bolden
(Commended, 2021)
19 Resources4 Awards
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
(Commended, 2010)
18 Resources5 Awards
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
(Commended, 2011)
18 Resources5 Awards
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships
by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
(Commended, 2011)
18 Resources4 Awards
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Picture Book Adaptation)
by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer, and Elizabeth Zunon
(Commended, 2013)
18 Resources6 Awards
Egg: Nature's Perfect Package
by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
(Commended, 2016)
18 Resources4 Awards
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
by Robert Burleigh and Raúl Colón
(Commended, 2017)
18 Resources7 Awards
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
by Diane Stanley and Jessie Hartland
(Commended, 2017)
18 Resources9 Awards