Science and Technology

Book Suggestions      Non-fiction

Black Stars: African American Women Scientists and Inventors, Otha Sullivan and Jim Haskins Grades 7-10

Brainstorm: The Stories of Twenty Kid Inventors, Tom Tucker Grades 5-9
The Encyclopedia of Preserved People: Pickled, Frozen, and Mummified Corpses from Around the World, Natalie Jane Prior Grades 5-8
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions of Women, Catherine Thimmesh Grades 5-8
The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay Grades 4+

Raptor Red, Robert Bakker (The biography of an individual female dinosaur growing up, mating, raising her young, engaging in battles.)

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections, Stephen Biesty
They All Laughed: From Light Bulb's to Lasers, The Fascinating Stories Behing the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives, Ira Flatow
They Saw the Future: Oracles, Psychics, Scientists, Great Thinkers, and Pretty Good Guessers, Kathleen Krull ages 9-12