Emi and the Rhino Scientist: How One Calf Happened
The best part of this book is the failures. A string of lost pregnancies before one calf, all of it written down, all of it in a book for a...
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Condor Comeback: Lead, Blood Tests, and 27 Birds
The California condor did not come back on its own, and it is not staying back on its own either. This is a book about what that costs, in people...
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Brian's Winter: The Physics of Staying Alive
Hatchet ends with a rescue. This book asks what would have happened if the plane had never come, and the answer turns out to be a winter of applied physics...
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My Side of the Mountain: The Science and the Caution
This is the gentler Jean Craighead George, and it is also the one most likely to make your child want to go and do it. Both of those are reasons...
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Julie of the Wolves: The Science and the Caution
It is one of the best pieces of animal science ever written for children, and there is a scene in it you need to know about first. Both of those...
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10 Best Read-Aloud Books for Third Graders
Ordered from the one that works at five to the one I would hold until ten. Every entry says which child it fits and what to know before you start,...
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