Youth Book List: Revolutions in Science

Youth: K – 5th

Aldrin, Buzz
Reaching for the Moon
HarperCollins, c2005

Brallier, Jess
Who Was Albert Einstein?
Grosset and Dunlap, c2002

Byrd, Robert
Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer
Dutton, c2003

Ehrlich, Amy
Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson
Harcourt, c2003

Goodall, Jane
My Life With the Chimpanzees
Aladdin, c1996

Hopkinson, Deborah
Who Was Charles Darwin?
Grosset and Dunlap, c2005

Jenkins, Steve
Prehistoric Actual Size
Houghton Mifflin, c2005.

McNulty, Faith
If You Decide to Go to the Moon
Scholastic Press, c2005

Sis, Peter
Starry Messenger
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1996

Sis, Peter
The Tree of Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003

Youth: 6th – 8th

Balchin, Jon
Science: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World
Enchanted Lion Books, c2003

Casey, Susan
Women Invent: Two Centuries of Discoveries That Have Shaped Our World
Chicago Review Press, c1997

Freedman, Russell
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
Holiday House, c1994

Goodhue, Thomas W.
Curious Bones: Mary Anning and the Birth of Paleontology
Morgan Reynolds, c2002

Hakim, Joy
The Story of Science, Book One: Aristotle Leads the Way
Smithsonian Books, c2004

Hakim, Joy
The Story of Science, Book Two: Newton at the Center
Smithsonian Books, c2005

Krull, Kathleen
Leonardo da Vinci: Giants of Science #1
Viking, c2005

Lawson, Kristan
Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities
Chicago Review Press, c2003

McCauley, David
The New Way Things Work
Houghton Mifflin, c1998

Thimmesh, Catherine
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by
Women
Houghton Mifflin, c2000