• Earth in the hot-seat: bulletins from a warming wo

    by Marfe Delano
    Clearly explains the dangers facing our world as global warming progresses. The photography in the book speaks to the issue as strongly as the text.
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  • Every soul a star.

    by Wendy Mass
    Many diverse people have gathered at a campground to watch the eclipse of the sun.  We learn about three unique children as they form unlikely friendships and how they fit into the world around them.
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  • Evil Genius

    by Jinks Catherine
    This story is centered on a child prodigy who is being trained to be a master criminal. 
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  • Grayson

    by Lynne Cox
    Grayson is a true story about a swimmer who does her swimming practice in the ocean each morning.  One morning, there is a surprise as a gray whale calf is following her, not its mother.  She has to try to reunite the calf with its mother.
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  • Green Glass Sea

    by Ellen Klages
    Mathematicians and scientists come to live in Los Alamos, a place not even on the map.  Together they are working on a secret project. Dewey slowly discovers what the project is after she comes to live with her father, a mathematician.
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  • Life as we knew it.

    by Susan Beth Pfeffer
    Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moos, causing the worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. 
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  • Scat

    by Carl Hiaasen
    Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.  Also by this author, "Hoot" and "Flush".
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  • Science Fair

    by Dave Barry
    The president of Kprshtskan is plotting to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School in Maryland in order to take over the US government, but when Toby Harbinger, an ordinary student, makes up his mind finally to win the fair, the terrorists' plans go awry.
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  • The Tree that time built

    by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
    A celebration of nature, science and imagination poems.
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  • Ubiquitous: celebrating nature's surviors

    by Joyce Sidman
    Sidman again pairs her accurate scientific writing with a reflective poem completed with an attractive illustration.
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