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Natural Disasters: A Reference Handbook
As an up-to-date, if utilitarian, resource on a perennially popular topic, this merits consideration for midsize and larger middle and high school collections.
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Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines That Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel: with Hands-On Engineering Activities for Kids
A delight for all budding engineers in elementary grades who, as Perdew puts it, “like to think of complex ways to accomplish simple tasks.”
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Skyscrapers: The Heights of Engineering
An engaging and welcome update to Lynn Curlee’s Skyscraper or Chris Oxlade’s Skyscrapers.
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The Book of Terrifyingly Awesome Technology: 27 Experiments for Young Scientists
The attached mini-projects are a weak link, but upper elementary grade STEM students will benefit from this wide-angled overview of modern and future technology.
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Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate
Readers are sure to be struck—not by lightning (one hopes) but by the scope and drama of the phenomena described in this breezy overview.
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Next Time You See a Bee
Honeybees get far better press, so this title serves as a needed corrective—as well as being an engaging invitation to younger middle graders to take closer looks at nature in their neighborhoods.
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Cats: Nature and Nurture
This guide to understanding cats and cat behavior provides rare insights aplenty, both to middle grade readers with a specific pet in mind and to young naturalists with a general interest in animals wild, domestic, and (in this case) in between.
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Cars: Engines That Move You
This breezy spin through the past, present, and (near) future of cars and related vehicles speeds down a well-traveled road, but its graphic format will give it particular appeal to readers years away from learner’s permits
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How Technology Works
Broader in scope and more current than similar single-volume works for middle grades such as Dan Green's Basher Science: Technology, but unsystematic in organization and free of leads to further information. Best suited for browsing.-John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New York
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