Science Reads: Math! Recommended reads for school age children

Updated April 8, 2024
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Dreaming in code : Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer
McCully, Emily Arnold
Paper Book
"Written with grace and intelligence, researched with care. . . . Sure to inspire a new generation of pioneers." --Shelf Awareness (starred review) This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's...
Flow, spin, grow : looking for patterns in nature
Barss, Patchen
Paper Book
Branching, spiraling, spinning--you can find patterns almost anywhere in nature, if you look for them. This book is a starting point that introduces kids to some major patterns in the natural world. Just as the branches of a tree spread upwards into the sky, roots branch deep into the ground....

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It's a numbers game! : basketball : the math behind the perfect bounce pass, the buzzer-beating bank shot, and so much more!
Buckley, James, Jr.
Paper Book
Why do NBA players only have 24 seconds to score a basket? What's the geometry behind making the perfect shot? Become a basketball pro and learn all about the numbers and math behind this popular sport. Numbers are everywhere in basketball--from the dimensions of the court to the...
She persisted in science : brilliant women who made a difference
Clinton, Chelsea
CD
Charlie Piechart and the case of the missing pizza slice
Comstock, Eric
Paper Book
It's pizza night at Charlie's house. . . . With 6 pizza eaters, 3 sizes of pizza on the delivery menu, and 2 slices for everybody, there's bound to be at least 1 mystery! Can Charlie solve it Yum!
A hundred billion trillion stars
Fishman, Seth
Paper Book
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book * Winner of the Mathical Book Prize Perfect for curious children, classrooms eager for STEM content, and readers who have devoured Ada Twist, Scientist and How Much Is a Million?, this nonfiction picture book is an excellent...
Just joking science
Pattison, Rosie Gowsell
Paper Book
This hilarious new book in the kid-favorite Just Joking series--packed with 300 science-themed jokes, riddles, knock-knocks, tongue twisters, and more--is scientifically proven to leave kids laughing, chuckling, and exclaiming "Eureka!" It's got jokes about all kinds of science stuff-...
The miscalculations of Lightning Girl
McAnulty, Stacy
Paper Book
A lightning strike gave her a super power...but even a super genius can't solve the problem of middle school. This smart and funny novel is perfect for fans of The Fourteenth Goldfish, Rain Reign, and Counting by Sevens. Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning....
Annika Riz, math whiz
Mills, Claudia.
Paper Book
Annika Riz loves math more than anything, so when she hears about a sudoku contest at the local public library, she is determined to win it--maybe then her friends Kelsey Green and Izzy Barr will see that math is just as cool as reading and running. When the school carnival, the biggest...
Multiplication
Midthun, Joseph.
Paper Book
Secret coders
Yang, Gene Luen
Paper Book
Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school...
Look up with me : Neil deGrasse Tyson : a life among the stars
Berne, Jennifer
Paper Book
A 2020 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! With an introduction from Neil DeGrasse Tyson about the importance of kid-like curiosity, this lyrical picture book biography on the beloved astrophysicist and host of Cosmos is the perfect gift for young astronomers and fans of all...
Katherine Johnson
Feldman, Thea
Paper Book
Get to know the woman who made many of NASA's early missions possible in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people "you should meet!" Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s...
Zaha Hadid
Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel
Paper Book
Part of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Zaha Hadid tells the inspiring true story of the visionary Iraqi-British architect. Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, surrounded by music. She was a curious and confident child, who...

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