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SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, 2006-2018

SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, 2006-2018

Resources for a selection of titles recognized for this award since its inception in 2006 -- recognizing outstanding science writing and illustration

Resources for this booklist include:

  • 57 Videos
  • 34 Book Readings
  • 162 Lesson Plans
  • Total of 987 resources

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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • by Rebecca Skloot
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
    One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
  • by Miranda Paul and Elizabeth Zunon
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas
    Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas
  • by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2013)
    Cook Prize (Honor, 2013)
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • by Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2015)
    Green Earth Award (Winner, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Egg Is Quiet, An
    An Egg Is Quiet
  • by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2007)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Vulture View
    Vulture View
  • by April Pulley Sayre and Steve Jenkins
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Skull in the Rock, The: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
    The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
  • by Lee Berger and Marc Aronson
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
  • by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
    Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
  • by Mara Rockliff and Iacopo Bruno
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics
    Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics
  • by Steve Jenkins
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Sixth Extinction, The: An Unnatural History
    The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • by Elizabeth Kolbert
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Redwoods
    Redwoods
  • by Jason Chin
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Wolves Are Back, The
    The Wolves Are Back
  • by Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
    Green Earth Award (Honor, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Hive Detectives, The: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
    The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
  • by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    How to Swallow a Pig: Step-By-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom
    How to Swallow a Pig: Step-By-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom
  • by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
    Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
  • by Robert Burleigh and Raúl Colón
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
    Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
  • by Catherine Thimmesh
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
    Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
  • by Loree Griffin Burns
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Nic Bishop Spiders
    Nic Bishop Spiders
  • by Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
    Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
  • by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2008)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Frog Scientist, The
    The Frog Scientist
  • by Pamela S. Turner and Andy Comins
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
    Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
  • by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Egg: Nature's Perfect Package
    Egg: Nature's Perfect Package
  • by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
    Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
  • by Annette LeBlanc Cate
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
    Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
  • by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life
    Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life
  • by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
    Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
  • by Sy Montgomery
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
    Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
  • by Jess Keating and Marta Alvarez Miguens
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2018)
    Amelia Bloomer (Commended, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth
    Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth
  • by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
    Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
  • by Brian Floca
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge, The
    The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
  • by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2011)
    Green Earth Award (Honor, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs, The: A Scientific Mystery
    The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery
  • by Sandra Markle
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
    Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
  • by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
    • SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Over and Under the Pond
    Over and Under the Pond
  • by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
  • by Carlo Rovelli
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
    Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
  • by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
    • SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
    ALSC Notable Books (Commended, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
  • by Patricia Newman
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
    Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
  • by Elizabeth Rusch and Tom Uhlman
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Things That Float and Things That Don't
    Things That Float and Things That Don't
  • by David A. Adler and Anna Raff
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
    Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
  • by Paul Fleischman
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Case of the Vanishing Honeybees, The: A Scientific Mystery
    The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
  • by Sandra Markle
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2015)
    Green Earth Award (Honor, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust
    Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust
  • by April Pulley Sayre and Ann Jonas
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2006)
    ALSC Notable Books (Commended, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed
    Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed
  • by David M. Schwartz, Yael Schy, and Dwight Kuhn
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    George Washington Carver
    George Washington Carver
  • by Tonya Bolden
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree
    Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree
  • by Kate Messner and Simona Mulazzani
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Magnets Push, Magnets Pull
    Magnets Push, Magnets Pull
  • by David A. Adler and Anna Raff
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Beetle Is Shy, A
    A Beetle Is Shy
  • by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Too Hot? Too Cold?: Keeping Body Temperature Just Right
    Too Hot? Too Cold?: Keeping Body Temperature Just Right
  • by Caroline Arnold and Annie Patterson
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Mother's Journey, A
    A Mother's Journey
  • by Sandra Markle and Alan Marks
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2006)
    BGHB Awards (Honor, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Eggs
    Eggs
  • by Marilyn Singer and Emma Stevenson
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    What's Eating You?: Parasites -- The Inside Story
    What's Eating You?: Parasites -- The Inside Story
  • by Nicola Davies and Neal Layton
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes
    Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes
  • by Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2015)
    ALSC Notable Books (Commended, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Beetle Busters: A Rogue Insect and the People Who Track It
    Beetle Busters: A Rogue Insect and the People Who Track It
  • by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  • by Randall Munroe
    • SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Because of an Acorn
    Because of an Acorn
  • by Lola M. Schaefer, Adam Schaefer, and Frann Preston-Gannon
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Great Monkey Rescue, The: Saving the Golden Lion Tamarins
    The Great Monkey Rescue: Saving the Golden Lion Tamarins
  • by Sandra Markle
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter
    Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter
  • by Mary Alice Monroe and Barbara J. Bergwerf
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
    Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
  • by Andrew Chaikin and Alan Bean
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall
    Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall
  • by Anita Silvey
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2016)
    Green Earth Award (Honor, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them
    Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them
  • by Terri Farley and Melissa Farlow
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Octopus Scientists, The
    The Octopus Scientists
  • by Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen
  • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Grow! Raise! Catch!: How We Get Our Food
    Grow! Raise! Catch!: How We Get Our Food
  • by Shelley Rotner
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Plant a Pocket of Prairie
    Plant a Pocket of Prairie
  • by Phyllis Root and Betsy Bowen
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
    Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
  • by Emily Arnold McCully
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Prairie Builders, The: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands
    The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands
  • by Sneed B. Collard, III
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2006)
    ALSC Notable Books (Commended, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
    Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
  • by Marfé Ferguson Delano
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Prices! Prices! Prices!: Why They Go Up and Down
    Prices! Prices! Prices!: Why They Go Up and Down
  • by David A. Adler and Edward Miller
    • SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Salamander Season
    Salamander Season
  • by Jennifer Keats Curtis
    • SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs
    High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs
  • by Lisa Kahn Schnell and Alan Marks
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Spidermania: Friends on the Web
    Spidermania: Friends on the Web
  • by Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle
    Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle
  • by Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2018)
    Cook Prize (Finalist, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis
    My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis
  • by Paul Meisel
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Otters Love to Play
    Otters Love to Play
  • by Jonathan London and Meilo So
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird
    Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird
  • by Pamela S. Turner, Guido De Filippo, and Andy Comins
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    It's Our Garden: From Seeds to Harvest in a School Garden
    It's Our Garden: From Seeds to Harvest in a School Garden
  • by George Ancona
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes
    Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes
  • by Pamela S. Turner
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2006)
    ALSC Notable Books (Commended, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaurs!
    Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaurs!
  • by Kathleen V. Kudlinski and S.D. Schindler
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Brook Book, The: Exploring the Smallest Streams
    The Brook Book: Exploring the Smallest Streams
  • by Jim Arnosky
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-To-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
    Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-To-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
  • by Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and Luis V. Rey
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Great Graph Contest, The
    The Great Graph Contest
  • by Loreen Leedy
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    ER Vets
    ER Vets
  • by Donna M. Jackson
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2007)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Wings
    Wings
  • by Sneed B. Collard, III and Robin Brickman
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Mosquito Bite
    Mosquito Bite
  • by Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2006)
    Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
    Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
  • by Cheryl Bardoe and Jos. A. Smith
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet
    Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet
  • by Francesca Davis DiPiazza
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Trash Talk: Moving Toward a Zero-Waste World
    Trash Talk: Moving Toward a Zero-Waste World
  • by Michelle Mulder
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Fire Birds
    Fire Birds
  • by Sneed B. Collard, III
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
    Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
  • by Alexandra Horowitz
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Beyond the Solar System: Exploring Galaxies, Black Holes, Alien Planets, and More; A History with 21 Activities
    Beyond the Solar System: Exploring Galaxies, Black Holes, Alien Planets, and More; A History with 21 Activities
  • by Mary Kay Carson
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Wild Horse Scientists
    Wild Horse Scientists
  • by Kay Frydenborg
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?
    Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?
  • by Rita Gray and Kenard Pak
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Mission: Mars
    Mission: Mars
  • by Pascal Lee
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Babies in the Bayou
    Babies in the Bayou
  • by Jim Arnosky
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
    Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
  • by James M. Deem
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came from
    Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came from
  • by Catherine Thimmesh
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
    How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
  • by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2009)
    Green Earth Award (Honor, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science, The: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists
    The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists
  • by Sean Connolly
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
    Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
  • by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang
    • SB&F Prize (Winner, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
    Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
  • by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    What Is Science?
    What Is Science?
  • by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and Sachiko Yoshikawa
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
    Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
  • by Joshua Davis
    • SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Frog Heaven: Ecology of a Vernal Pool
    Frog Heaven: Ecology of a Vernal Pool
  • by Doug Wechsler
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2008)
    Green Earth Award (Honor, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Octopuses!: Strange and Wonderful
    Octopuses!: Strange and Wonderful
  • by Laurence Pringle and Meryl Henderson
    • SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call You Home
    Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call You Home
  • by Claire Eamer and Marie-Eve Tremblay
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    To Burp or Not to Burp: A Guide to Your Body in Space
    To Burp or Not to Burp: A Guide to Your Body in Space
  • by Dave Williams, Loredana Cunti, and Theo Krynauw
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2018)
  • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
    Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
  • by M.R. O'Connor
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Hopping Ahead of Climate Change: Snowshoe Hares, Science, and Survival
    Hopping Ahead of Climate Change: Snowshoe Hares, Science, and Survival
  • by Sneed B. Collard, III
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Letters to a Young Scientist
    Letters to a Young Scientist
  • by Edward Osborne Wilson
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Gulp.: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
    Gulp.: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  • by Mary Roach
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People
    Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People
  • by Albert Marrin and C.B. Mordan
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2007)
    ALSC Notable Books (Commended, 2007)
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    Life on Earth - And Beyond: An Astrobiologist's Quest
    Life on Earth - And Beyond: An Astrobiologist's Quest
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    Cool Chemistry Concoctions: 50 Formulas That Fizz, Foam, Splatter & Ooze
    Cool Chemistry Concoctions: 50 Formulas That Fizz, Foam, Splatter & Ooze
  • by Joe Rhatigan, Veronika Alice Gunter, and Tom LaBaff
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    Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet
    Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet
  • by Alexandra Siy
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    Wild Trees, The: A Story of Passion and Daring
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    Chicken Followed Me Home, A: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl
    A Chicken Followed Me Home: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl
  • by Robin Page
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    Thomas Edison for Kids: His Life and Ideas
    Thomas Edison for Kids: His Life and Ideas
  • by Laurie Winn Carlson
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    Lab Girl
    Lab Girl
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    What a Waste: Where Does Garbage Go?
    What a Waste: Where Does Garbage Go?
  • by Claire Eamer and Bambi Edlund
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    Voyager's Greatest Hits: The Epic Trek to Interstellar Space
    Voyager's Greatest Hits: The Epic Trek to Interstellar Space
  • by Alexandra Siy
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    How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
    How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
  • by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut
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    Cell, The: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life
    The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life
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    Recycled Science: Bring Out Your Science Genius with Soda Bottles, Potato Chip Bags, and More Unexpected Stuff
    Recycled Science: Bring Out Your Science Genius with Soda Bottles, Potato Chip Bags, and More Unexpected Stuff
  • by Tammy Enz and Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
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    Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin
    Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin
  • by Michael D. Lemonick
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    Ellie's Log: Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell
    Ellie's Log: Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell
  • by Judith L. Li and M.L. Herring
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    Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
    Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
  • by Emily Anthes
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    Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, The: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
  • by Sam Kean
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    Kid's Guide to Exploring Nature, The
    The Kid's Guide to Exploring Nature
  • by Laszlo Veres
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    Exploratopia: More Than 400 Kid-Friendly Experiments and Explorations for Curious Minds
    Exploratopia: More Than 400 Kid-Friendly Experiments and Explorations for Curious Minds
  • by Pat Murphy and Ellen Macaulay
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    Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd
    Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd
  • by Karsten Heuer
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    Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic Anthropologist Diane France
    Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic Anthropologist Diane France
  • by Lorraine Jean Hopping
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    Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
    Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
  • by Eric Dinerstein
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    Invisible Kingdom, The: From the Tips of Our Fingers to the Tops of Our Trash, Inside the Curious World of Microbes
    The Invisible Kingdom: From the Tips of Our Fingers to the Tops of Our Trash, Inside the Curious World of Microbes
  • by Idan Ben-Barak
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    Dinosaur Eggs Discovered!: Unscrambling the Clues
    Dinosaur Eggs Discovered!: Unscrambling the Clues
  • by Lowell Dingus, Luis M. Chiappe, and Rodolfo A. Coria
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    Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
    Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
  • by Thor Hanson
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    How to Spy on a Shark
    How to Spy on a Shark
  • by Lori Haskins Houran and Francisca Marquez
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    Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code
    Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code
  • by Amy Cherrix
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    Robins!: How They Grow Up
    Robins!: How They Grow Up
  • by Eileen Christelow
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    This Book Stinks!: Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash
    This Book Stinks!: Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash
  • by Sarah Wassner Flynn
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    Outside: A Complete Guide to Discovering Nature
    Outside: A Complete Guide to Discovering Nature
  • by Ines Teixeira Do Rosari, Maria Ana Peixe Dias, and Bernardo Carvalho
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    Faster, Higher, Smarter: Bright Ideas That Transformed Sports
    Faster, Higher, Smarter: Bright Ideas That Transformed Sports
  • by Simon Shapiro
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    Tooth by Tooth: Comparing Fangs, Tusks, and Chompers
    Tooth by Tooth: Comparing Fangs, Tusks, and Chompers
  • by Sara C. Levine
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    What Bluebirds Do
    What Bluebirds Do
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    Survivors Club, The: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life
    The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life
  • by Ben Sherwood
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    Guinea Pig Scientists
    Guinea Pig Scientists
  • by Mel Boring, Leslie A. Dendy, and C.B. Mordan
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    True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet
    True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet
  • by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin
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