Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2024
Resources for a selection of titles recommended since 2005 -- recognizing outstanding science trade books
Sponsored by National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
![Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/list_image/5230.jpg)
- 4,340 Resources including
- 295 Videos
- 123 Book Readings
- 392 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 396 book results
![Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1580892973.jpg)
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton and Don Tate
(Commended, 2017)
38 Resources11 Awards
![Grand Canyon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1596439505.jpg)
![Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1250137527.jpg)
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
by Helaine Becker and Dow Phumiruk
(Commended, 2019)
33 Resources9 Awards
![Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0547152280.jpg)
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
(Commended, 2011)
31 Resources8 Awards
![Giant Squid](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1596435992.jpg)
![Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1492642045.jpg)
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
by Jess Keating and Marta Álvarez Miguéns
(Winner, 2018)
29 Resources6 Awards
![Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0316393827.jpg)
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
by Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy
(Commended, 2019)
28 Resources10 Awards
![Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0763636118.jpg)
![Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0618494170.jpg)
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
(Commended, 2011)
27 Resources7 Awards
![Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0374304688.jpg)
![Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0316278203.jpg)
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara McClintock
(Commended, 2019)
26 Resources11 Awards
![Stone Is a Story, A](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1534496947.jpg)
![Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0544630920.jpg)
![Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America's Doctor](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/75785_hi.jpg)
Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America's Doctor
by Kate Messner and Alexandra Bye
(Commended, 2022)
25 Resources1 Awards
![Animal Book, The: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest ...](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/054755799X.jpg)
The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest ...
(Commended, 2014)
24 Resources7 Awards
![Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0544252306.jpg)
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
by Katherine Applegate and G. Brian Karas
(Commended, 2015)
24 Resources6 Awards
![Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1939547202.jpg)
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
by Laurie Wallmark and April Chu
(Commended, 2016)
24 Resources7 Awards
![Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1728458994.jpg)
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith, and Nicole Neidhardt
(Commended, 2023)
24 Resources3 Awards
![Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0618135472.jpg)
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
(Commended, 2006)
23 Resources8 Awards
![Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0618717196.jpg)
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
(Commended, 2011)
23 Resources7 Awards
![Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0547443153.jpg)
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
(Commended, 2013)
23 Resources7 Awards
![Can an Aardvark Bark?](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1481458523.jpg)
![Brilliant Deep, The: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1452133506.jpg)
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
(Commended, 2019)
23 Resources8 Awards
![Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/65985_hi.jpg)
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet
by Elizabeth Rusch and Teresa Martínez
(Commended, 2020)
23 Resources9 Awards
![Plagues and Pandemics](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/059312040X.jpg)
![Whale Fall: Exploring an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0593380606.jpg)
Whale Fall: Exploring an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem
by Melissa Stewart and Rob Dunlavey
(Selection, 2024)
22 Resources5 Awards
![Tarantula Scientist, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0618147993.jpg)
![Beetle Book, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0547680848.jpg)
![Eat Like a Bear](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0805090398.jpg)
![Over and Under the Pond](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1452145423.jpg)
Over and Under the Pond
by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
(Commended, 2018)
(Commended, 2018)
21 Resources4 Awards
![Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74596_hi.jpg)
Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate
by Melissa Stewart and Sarah S. Brannen
(Commended, 2022)
21 Resources4 Awards
![American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/168437815X.jpg)
American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South
by Gail Jarrow
(Commended, 2023)
21 Resources7 Awards
![Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0618496416.jpg)
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
(Commended, 2007)
20 Resources5 Awards
![Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0761393420.jpg)
Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
(Commended, 2015)
20 Resources7 Awards
![Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1596438746.jpg)
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
(Commended, 2015)
20 Resources7 Awards
![Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481465651.jpg)
![How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1626721785.jpg)
![Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1454926910.jpg)
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor
by Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu
(Commended, 2020)
20 Resources4 Awards
![Creep, Leap, Crunch!: A Food Chain Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0593565533.jpg)
Creep, Leap, Crunch!: A Food Chain Story
by Jody Jensen Shaffer and Christopher Silas Neal
(Selection, 2024)
20 Resources2 Awards
![Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0374399182.jpg)
![Papa's Mechanical Fish](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0374399085.jpg)
![Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0547959079.jpg)
![Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0763671029.jpg)
![Our Food: A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1580895905.jpg)
Our Food: A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems
by Grace Lin, Ranida T. McKneally, and Grace Zong
(Commended, 2017)
19 Resources2 Awards
![Condor Comeback](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0544816536.jpg)
![Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1984896040.jpg)
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
by Dan Nott
(Selection, 2024)
19 Resources10 Awards
![Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0618507574.jpg)