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• Engineering & Technology
• Chemistry & Materials
• Maker / Problem-Solving

Why it works: Castle builds a fictional medieval fortress brick by brick through David Macaulay's sequential pen-and-ink drawings. The visual construction story makes materials, defensive constraints, tools, and structural choices the events readers follow.

• Earth Science
• Life Science
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Caterflies and Ice traps magical eggs in an unexpected snowstorm and makes Zoey repair a failed rescue before the creatures hatch. Her experiments, research, and handwritten science journal carry the fantasy problem from question to tested solution.

• Engineering & Technology
• Chemistry & Materials
• Maker / Problem-Solving

Why it works: Cathedral recreates a French Gothic cathedral from harvesting timber through placing the final lead on its spire. Macaulay's drawings and brief narrative make structural sequence, materials, tools, and the coordination of a vast build into the book's unfolding story.

• Life Science
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Cece Loves Science gives Cece and Isaac a child-sized question about whether Einstein the dog eats vegetables. Their research, data collection, analysis, and surprising conclusion form the picture-book plot instead of appearing as a detached lesson.

• Earth Science
• Engineering & Technology
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Cece Loves Science and Adventure turns a troop camping trip and an approaching thunderstorm into a chain of practical STEM decisions. Meteorology, measurement, shelter design, and route calculation determine how Cece and her friends get back safely.

• Physics & Energy
• Engineering & Technology
• Maker / Problem-Solving

Why it works: Cece Loves Science: Push and Pull gives the class a concrete design challenge: build a dog-treat dispenser that uses both opposing forces. Cece's team has to apply the force idea, create a device, and see whether it works, so the concept carries the leveled-reader story.