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Bee People
Gr 5–7—Host and bee removal expert Gregg McMahan has a big personality and plenty of passion for his industrious "girls"—bees, that is...
Buried Treasure: Real and Imagined Adventure Titles | Focus On
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.
Super Skyscrapers
Gr 6–9—Coherent narratives and excellent, if sometimes vertigo-inducing, camera work distinguish this four-part PBS miniseries...
Into the Cosmos Collection
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...
Alchemy and Chemistry
Gr 6–8—In these excellent surveys, Stefoff explores the historical relationships between science and pseudoscience...
The Third Chimpanzee: For Young People
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...
Alien Planets Revealed
Gr 5–8—An informative, if somewhat thin NOVA episode about finding exoplanets, but only through the Kepler space observatory...
Comet Encounter: ISON's Brush with the Sun
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...
Robots, Rockets, Cool Cars: New High-Interest STEM Books | Series Made Simple
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.
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