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The following is a treasure trove of titles that are bound to capture the attention and spark the imaginations of readers. They are chock-full of action, adventure, and derring-do, guaranteed to keep the pages turning.
Gr 5–8—Stars flare, titanic storms rage, colliding galaxies burst apart, and clouds of blazing gases blast toward the viewer in over-the-top portrayals of our far-from-quiet universe...
Gr 9 Up—Adapted for younger audiences by the redoubtable Stefoff but not significantly different in scope, arguments, or, for that matter, reading level from Diamond's original (Harper, 1992, 2006), this wide-ranging study of what makes us human offers provocative views of evolution, adaptation, cultural diffusion, sexuality, genocide, race, mass extinctions of the past and present, the roots of drug abuse and language, and even the search for extraterrestrial intelligence ("we're alone in a crowded universe...
Gr 6–8—This overview offers an unusually detailed look at how teams of astronomers used optical telescopes, spectroscopic analyses, and crowdsourced databases to determine the orbit and composition of ISON, a comet that shot into the inner solar system from high above the plane of the ecliptic and, in November of 2013, grazed the sun...
Longtime reviewer and children’s literature consultant John Peters takes an in-depth look at new nonfiction series that focus on STEM topics such as robotics, measuring, and big machines.