What's the Big Idea?

By (author) Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Steve Attoe
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology

Beginning with inventions from long, long ago (the needle, the wheel, the water pump) moving to those from long ago (the printing press, steel, the telegraph) and ending with innovations from not so long ...

Animals at the EDGE

By (author) Jonathan Baillie & Marilyn Baillie
Categories: Children’s / Teenage social issues: Environment and green issues

EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) species are evolutionarily unique, which means if they don’t survive, there will be no similar species left on Earth. But all hope is not lost. ...

This Is My Planet

By (author) Jan Thornhill
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Ecosystems

As world leaders and others face up to what needs to be done to ensure the future of our planet, Jan Thornhill gives a young audience the tools to understand the crisis and take action in their own lives. ...

Gross and Disgusting Things about the Human Body

By (author) Joanna Emery
Illustrated by Roger Garcia
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science: The human body

Icky, sticky, slimy, and smelly—the human body is amazing, but it’s pretty nasty sometimes, too! Find the real answers to your questions about the gross and disgusting things in, on, and coming out ...

SOS: Stories of Survival

By (author) Ed Butts
Categories: Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics

Everyone’s life is touched at some time by disaster. But some disasters loom so large they are international events. The stories of those who live through such devastating events such as earthquakes, ...

Alligator and Crocodile Rescue

By (author) Trish Snyder
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Reptiles and amphibians
Series: Firefly Animal Rescue

Crocodilians is the scientific name for crocodiles, alligators, gharials and caimans. Collectively they area walking, breathing link to the dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 240 million years ago. And they ...

I Found a Dead Bird

By (author) Jan Thornhill
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and bereavement

I found a dead bird. It made me sad…but I also had a lot of questions, like why did it have to die? How did it die? What would happen to it now that it was dead? This is Jan Thornhill’s jumping-off ...

Snow Amazing

By (author) Jane Drake & Ann Love
Illustrated by Mark Thurman
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Jane Drake and Ann Love, the acclaimed authors of Cool Woods: A Trip Around the World’s Boreal Forest, explore the fascinating, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous world of snow. They write about snow ...

Panda Rescue

By (author) Dan Bortolotti
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Bears
Series: Firefly Animal Rescue

The giant panda is the world’s most beloved animal -- and one of the rarest. Firefly Animal Rescue is a new series of books about endangered and threatened species and what is being done to protect ...

Cool Woods

By (author) Jane Drake & Ann Love
Illustrated by Andrew Kiss
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology

Winner of the Skipping Stones Honor Award in the Ecology and Nature Books category
The boreal forest is the last great forest wilderness on earth. It drapes across the subarctic right around the world. ...