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SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, 2006-2019

SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, 2006-2019

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:

  • 66 Videos
  • 38 Book Readings
  • 173 Lesson Plans
  • Total of 1253 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: 23
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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: 20
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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: 18
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    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
  • by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
  • Multimedia Resources: 18
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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: 18
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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: 17
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    Vulture View
    Vulture View
  • by April Pulley Sayre and Steve Jenkins
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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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: 17
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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: 17
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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: 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: 16
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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: 16
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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: 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: 15
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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: 15
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    Redwoods
    Redwoods
  • by Jason Chin
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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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: 15
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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: 15
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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: 15
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    Egg: Nature's Perfect Package
    Egg: Nature's Perfect Package
  • by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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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: 14
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    Nic Bishop Spiders
    Nic Bishop Spiders
  • by Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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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: 14
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    Frog Scientist, The
    The Frog Scientist
  • by Pamela S. Turner and Andy Comins
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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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: 14
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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: 14
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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: 14
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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: 13
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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: 13
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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: 13
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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: 13
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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: 13
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    Over and Under the Pond
    Over and Under the Pond
  • by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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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)
    Junior Library Guild (Selection, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
    Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
  • by Brian Floca
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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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: 12
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    Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
    Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
  • by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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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)
    Junior Library Guild (Selection, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
    Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
  • by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
    • SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2019)
    Junior Library Guild (Selection, 2018)
  • 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: 11
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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: 11
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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: 11
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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: 11
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    Octopus Scientists, The
    The Octopus Scientists
  • by Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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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: 11
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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: 10
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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: 10
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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: 10
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    Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes
    Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes
  • by Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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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: 10
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