Read to Learn! STEM books for young readers

Enjoy this list of STEM titles for young readers that follows the theme for our SweetBean Reading Challenge in September!

Updated July 3, 2024
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Brick science : STEM tips and tricks for experimenting with your LEGO bricks
Fisher, Jacquie
Paper Book
Build your way through over a dozen fantastic STEM experiments, brick by brick! Does your young scientist love LEGOs? Then this is the book for them! Contained within these pages is a plethora of experiments and lessons to teach your child all about STEM using...
Design a game!
Wolf, Bree
Paper Book
Inside Maker Comics: Design a Game!, the next volume of First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for six tabletop game design projects! Siblings Shen, Shondra, and Shontoya arrive at Ludum Omega Summer Camp with a passion for games, and...
Different kinds of minds : a guide to your brain
Grandin, Temple
Paper Book
Albert Einstein. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Katharine Johnson. These geniuses are all visual thinkers. Are you? Do you like puzzles, coding, and taking things apart? Do you write stories, act in plays, slay at Wordle? The things you are good at are clues to how your brain works. Are...
Guitar
Houran, Lori Haskins
Paper Book
Turn it up! The newest addition to the nonfiction Eureka! series is a "biography" of guitars, an essential invention that gets people rocking. With a timeline spanning from the first time someone strummed a string stretched across a hollow object to electric guitars that bring...
Look and cook snacks : a first book of recipes in pictures
Fisher, Valorie
Paper Book
Featured in the 2023 New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! The first of its kind, LookandCookSnacksis an entirely visual guide to cooking. Designed for children who can't yet read, this is a must-have introduction to the joys of cooking for kids ages 4 to 7.From...
Maker lab : 28 super cool projects : build, invent, create, discover
Challoner, Jack
Paper Book
Supporting STEAM education initiatives and the Maker Movement, the National Parenting Publication Award-winner Maker Lab includes 28 kid-safe projects and crafts that will get young inventors' wheels turning and make science pure fun. Each step-by-step activity is appropriate for kids ages...
Math play!
McGowan, Diane
Paper Book
Hours of good fun are in store for kids as they explore early learning math skills such as counting, sequencing, numerical recognition, pattern identification, manipulating shapes, and measuring--with plenty of play mixed in. Eighty noncompetitive games and participatory activities, plus...
Music and how it works : the complete guide for kids
Morland, Charlie
Paper Book
Take a visual journey through the world of music and learn the science behind it, too. Budding music fans will love discovering musical geniuses of every era, from Mozart and classical music to Bowie and pop, as well as finding out how music is created and what links it all...
Space
Clarke, Izzie
Map
Discover how space is part of our daily lives with Everyday STEM Science--Space, filled with facts, stories, and experiments to try at home! Everyone knows there are planets and stars and space rocks, but how do these, and everything else in space, affect us on Earth?...

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