Innisfree Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I'd like to find some more books like The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, covering any branch of science, to use alongside nonfiction for my rising sixth-grader. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I'd like to find some more books like The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, covering any branch of science, to use alongside nonfiction for my rising sixth-grader. Any ideas? Danny Dunn books? Here are some resources from the ALA with brief descriptions: http://www.ala.org/offices/resources/sciencenovels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innisfree Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 Thank you! That's a fantastic list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I'd like to find some more books like The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, covering any branch of science, to use alongside nonfiction for my rising sixth-grader. Any ideas? I was just going to suggest that book when I saw the thread title! Did you read the sequel? The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Lucy and Stephen Hawking (yes, that Stephen Hawking, Lucy is his daughter) have a series: George's Secret Key to the Universe George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt George and the Big Bang George and the Unbreakable Code I've read the first one and it was quite enjoyable, with fabulous photos from the Hubble telescope in the middle, as I remember. http://www.hawking.org.uk/books.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It has a lot of incorporated geology, probably as much as there is evolution in Calpurnia Tate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Farmers in the Sky by Robert Heinlein. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 There's a lot of good nature study tie ins, like Owls in the Family, My Side of the Mountain, Gone Away Lake... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 - Nim's Island (Orr) -- biomes: island - Call It Courage (Armstrong) -- biomes: S. Pacific island - Lost in the Barrens (Farley) -- biomes: arctic - Shackleton's Stowaway (McKernan) -- biomes: antarctic; survival - My Season with Penguins (Webb) -- biomes: antarctic; penguins - My Side of the Mountain (George) -- biomes: mountain - series of eco mystery books by George - Hoot (Hiaasen) -- and other ecology-based fiction by Hiaasen - The Big Wave (Buck) -- natural disaster: tsunami - The Twenty-One Balloons (duBois) -- inventions; island; volcano - Every Soul a Star (Mass) -- total solar eclipse - Leviathan (Westerfeld) -- mechanical devices in an alternative WW1 steam punk world - Dragonwings (Yep) -- flight - The Strictest School in the World (Whitehouse) -- flight - Physics Quest: Nikola Tesla and the Electric Fair -- electricity -- free online graphic novel - Quark Chronicles -- (intelligent design based) botany, zoology, and anatomy info woven into fiction stories - Fever (Anderson) -- infectious disease - Parcel of Patterns (Walsh) -- or -- Master Cornhill (Mcgraw) -- 17th century plague (infectious disease) As read-alouds, you might try: - The Martian (Weir) -- fiction; Mars, survival, astronomy, math, physics, botany, etc. - Kon Tiki (Heyersdahl) -- non-fiction; 1940s recreation of a log raft sailing from S. America to Pacific Islands Mostly non-fiction (a few fiction titles mixed in) -- Teachers First: Curri-Connects Book Lists: Earth Science Physics Solar System and Space Motion Natural Disasters Weather Animals and Habitats Flight and Flying Things Bridges and Structures Medicine and Health 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry in OH Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Russell Stannard’s Uncle Albert trilogy: The Time and Space of Uncle Albert, Black Holes and Uncle Albert, and Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest. Simon Mayo’s Itch: the Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter and sequels. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innisfree Posted July 30, 2016 Author Share Posted July 30, 2016 What riches! Thank you all so much. :-) I can't wait to start sorting through these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) I second Simon Mayo's Itch series. Chemistry + action. There's some low-level language. We also loved Jennifer Holm's The Fourteenth Goldfish. This is a fun novel with quirky characters and plenty of science, including ethics related to science. Highly recommend this one. And there's also The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin. Grief + science. We haven't read this one yet, but it recently arrived and I can tell you that the cover feels lovely. I just like touching it. :001_smile: Edited July 30, 2016 by chocolate-chip chooky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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