Raising Readers: S.T.R.E.A.M.
November 2025
Science Sparks!
Get ready to explore the world with awesome science books! From cool animals and outer space to amazing inventions and wild weather, each book is packed with fun facts and exciting discoveries. There’s something new and awesome to learn on every page!
Crafty science by Jane Bull
Crafty Science: More than 20 Sensational STEAM Projects to Create at Home
by Jane Bull

A hands-on primer for curious youngsters introduces STEAM principles behind a variety of arts, crafts and cooking activities, from building a toy raft and discovering what makes it float, to creating an ice sculpture and learning about the changing states of solids and liquids.
Is the Milky Way Made Out of Milk? : World Book Answers Your Questions About Outer Space by Grace Guibert
Is the Milky Way Made Out of Milk?: World Book Answers Your Questions About Outer Space
by Grace Guibert

Using a lighthearted and humorous approach, this book explores and answers a wide range of questions about space, including fascinating topics such as how stars form, what makes each planet unique, and what meteors really are and where they come from.
Rocks & minerals by Nancy Honovich
Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Rocks and Minerals
by Nancy Honovich

This fun, photo-filled, fact-packed guide to rocks and minerals will get kids outside to discover the amazing world underneath their feet. It invites young enthusiasts to make discoveries in their own environments, offering interactivity prompts for digging up and identifying fossils, lava formations and more.
Why? encyclopedia : brilliant answers to baffling questions by Margaret Parrish
Why? Encyclopedia: Brilliant Answers to Baffling Questions
by Margaret Parrish

This encyclopedia covers all the subjects children really want to know about, like what’s inside a pyramid? What is an echo? Did cavemen live in caves?
Crow smarts  : inside the brain of the world's brightest bird by Pamela S Turner
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird
by Pamela S Turner

The team behind The Frog Scientist takes you on a research trip to New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean to follow crows in aviaries and in the wild while answering many thought-provoking questions like: "Can a crow outsmart a scientist?" 
Science by Emily Grossman
Science
by Emily Grossman

Have you ever wanted to know what lightning is? Or who discovered why things fall to the ground? Now you are can find out! Science is packed with surprising scientific facts and amazing pictures.
Bill Nye's great big world of science by Bill Nye
Bill Nye's Great Big World of Science
by Bill Nye

Featuring a range of subjects-physics, chemistry, geology, biology, astronomy, global warming, and more-this profusely illustrated book covers the basic principles of each science, key discoveries, recent revolutionary advances, and the problems that science still needs to solve for our Earth. Nye and coauthor Gregory Mone present the most difficult theories and facts in an easy-to-comprehend, humorous way. They interviewed numerous specialists from around the world, in each of the fields discussed, whose insights are included throughout.
Becoming bionic, and other ways science is making us super by Heather Camlot
Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super
by Heather Camlot

Using superheroes to explore how science is transforming our bodies and our experiences, this fresh and timely take on innovation, blending pop culture, history and STEM, invites readers to think critically about incredible, and sometimes controversial, advancements.
Science experiments by James Maclaine
Science Experiments
by James Maclaine

How can you bend water with a ruler? What makes grass green? How do machines work? What happens if you add raisins to a fizzy drink? Why don't seals freeze in icy water? Can anything stop paper clips from sinking? This book will show you how to discover the answers to these questions and more - making you think like a scientist in a few simple steps.
Wild weather : storms, meteorology, and climate by M. K Reed
Science Comics: Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate
by MK Reed

As “snowpocalypse” descends once again, one temperamental weatherman is determined to set the record straight on the myths and misconceptions surrounding the elements. What is the difference between weather and climate? How do weather satellites predict the future? Can someone outrun a tornado? Does the rotation of the Earth affect wind currents? And does meteorology have anything to do with meteors? Stormin’ Norman Weatherby is gearing up to answer all your wildest questions in this illustrated graphic nonfiction novel!
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