SERIES
Science for
Kids series : Galileo, Newton, Einstein (all have activities as well as info)
Series: Masterpieces, artists and their works
NONFICTION
The
boy who harnessed the wind
By Kamkwamba, William Dewey: 621.4
The author details how he ignored naysayers and was
able to bring electricity and running water to his Malawian village when he
built a makeshift windmill out of scrap metal and spare parts.
The
dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins : an illuminating history of Mr. Waterhouse
Hawkins, artist and lecturer : true dinosaur story in three ages ....
By Kerley, Barbara
Dewey: 567.9
The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin
Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of
educating the world about what these awe-inspiring ancient animals were like.
Leonardo
da Vinci : artist, inventor, and Renaissance man
By Koestler-Grack, Rachel A Dewey: 709
Profiles the life and works of artist, sculptor,
inventor, writer, and scientist, Leonardo da Vinci, and describes how much of
his work became forerunners of many modern machines such as the automobile and
the airplane.
Leonardo
da Vinci by Barbara Witteman (biography)
Series: Masterpieces. Artists and their Work.
by Jan Greenberg
Recounts the life of the twentieth-century African-American collage artist who used his southern childhood. New York City, jazz, and Paris to influence his bold and meaningful art.
Starry
messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician,
astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei
By Sis, Peter
Dewey: 520
Describes the life and work of Galileo who changed
the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth
was not the fixed center of the universe.
FICTION
Among
the brave
By Haddix, Margaret Peterson Dewey: -Fic-
In a society that allows families to have only two
children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
Beetle
boy
By Leonard, M. G
Dewey: -Fic-
Darkus Cuttle has taken care of his father ever since
his mother died, but his father vanished from a locked vault at the Natural
History Museum, and now he lives with his eccentric uncle. One day he finds a
large and unusually intelligent and self-aware beetle, and soon he and his two
friends are caught up in a struggle to protect an intelligent super species of
beetles
Benjamin
Franklinstein lives!
By McElligott, Matthew Dewey: -Fic-
While working on a science fair project, a
Philadelphia school boy discovers both a secret laboratory in his basement and
Benjamin Franklin, who comes to life after receiving a jolt of electricity.
Framed
By Cottrell Boyce, Frank Dewey: -Fic-
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to
make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not
until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable
paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.
By Novesky, Amy
Dewey: -Fic-
Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style
when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San
Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on
her own.
By Gibbs, Stuart
Dewey: -Fic-
"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha,
has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent
doctors"--Provided by publisher.
The
7 professors of the Far North
By Fardell, John
Dewey: -Fic-
Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a
dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and
Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and
five other professors from the mad scientist holding them prisoner.
Saffy's
angel
By McKay, Hilary
Dewey: -Fic-
After learning that she was adopted,
thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family
changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a
special memento of her past.
