Ada Lace, on the Case: a Hunch Is Not a Hypothesis
Nina is certain an alien took the dog. Ada is certain a person did. That argument is the engine of the book, and it happens to be the most useful...
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Ada Lace Sees Red Is a Robot Book About a Grudge
Ada is not likeable for a good stretch of this one. She is jealous of her best friend, she will not speak to her father, and she cannot get her...
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Ada Lace and the Impossible Mission: Scale and Sensors
Two third graders break into a locked school closet after hours and get past the alarm. Before you decide how you feel about that, look at what they have to...
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Smithsonian 5-Minute Dinosaur Tales: An Honest Look
This is a bedtime book wearing a museum's name. That is not a knock on it. It just changes what you should expect it to do, and it changes the...
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Alligator vs. Python: Real Science, Made-Up Fight
It is a picture book about two reptiles having a fight that never happened, and it is one of the most reliable ways I know to get a six-year-old to...
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Coral Reefs: The Comic That Teaches Real Biology
It looks like a comic and it reads like one. It is also a marine biology unit in disguise, and it leaves your child able to explain a bleached reef...
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