Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004
Young Billy Bartram keeps a journal of his experiences learning about the plants of the colonial United States from his father, John Bartram, as they travel together gathering specimens and planting seeds. Reading Level: 5.2; Accelerated Reader: 5.5
National Geographic, 2004
Describes the work of volcanologists on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, geologists studying earthquakes in Istanbul, Turkey, and meteorologists studying tornadoes on the American Great Plains. Grades 4-6
Enslow, 1996
Examines the life of Isaac Newton, the seventeenth-century English scientist who formulated the theory of gravity. Reading Level: 5.5; Accelerated Reader: 5.6
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000
The story of John Harrison, inventor of watches and clocks, who spent forty years working on a time-machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude at sea. Reading Level: 6.2; Accelerated Reader: 8.6
Kids Can Press, 2004
Presents a short biography on the life and career of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and provides information on her discovery of the element radium that helped to unlock the mysteries of the atom. Reading Level: 6.1; Accelerated Reader: 6.8
Presents a comprehensive examination into the efforts to restore the native tallgrass prairie to an eight-thousand acre reserve in central Iowa, and describes the process of reintroducing prairie plants and wildlife, including the Regal Fritillary butterfly. Reading Level: 5.6; Accel Reader: 7.3
Rocks in His Head, by Carol Otis Hurst; illustraded by James Stevenson
Greenwillow Books, 2001
A young man has a lifelong love of rock collecting that eventually leads
him to work at a science
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
1999 Caldecott Medal Honor
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
Describes the life and work of Galileo who changed the way people saw the galaxy by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe. Read. Level: 5.9; Accel. Reader: 4.8
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
"follows arachnologist Sam Marshall on an expedition to South America... Information about spider basics, spider silk, and how to observe your own local spiders is woven into the main narrative. The color photography is so interesting that even the squeamish may take a second look" (Horn Book) Reading Level 6.4; Accel. Reader: 5.8
Under the ice, written by Kathy Conlan, Louise Dickson, &
Iain Hunter.
Kids Can Press, 2002
"A Candian Museum of Nature book." Dr. Kathy Conlan describes
what is involved in her work as a marine biologist studying the sea stars
and other creatures that live on the sea bed under the ice of Antarctica.
Reading Level: 6.5; Accelerated Reader: 6.2
