2022 BSB

Book recommendations for educators, librarians, parents, and guardians of the best children’s books with STEM content in 2021

 
Amara and the Bats

Amara and the Bats

By: Emma Reynolds
Illustrated by:
Emma Reynolds
ISBN: 9781534469013
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Artificial Intelligence (STEAM & Me Series)

Artificial Intelligence (STEAM & Me Series)

By: Dinah Williams
ISBN: 9781946260871
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World

Benoit Mandelbrot

By: Robert Black
ISBN: 9780898246865
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
Bicycle: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea

Bicycle

By: Lori Haskins Houran
Illustrated by:
Aaron Cushley
ISBN: 9781635923940
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Bones Unearthed (Creepy and True #3)

Bones Unearthed (Creepy and True #3)

By: Kerrie Logan Hollihan
ISBN: 9781419755354
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid

Building Zaha

By: Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Illustrated by:
Victoria Tentler-Krylov
ISBN: 9781338282832
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

Classified

By: Traci Sorell
Illustrated by:
Natasha Donovan
ISBN: 9781541579149
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars

Code Breaker, Spy Hunter

By: Laurie Wallmark
Illustrated by:
Brooke Smart
ISBN: 9781419739637
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood’s Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife

Cougar Crossing

By: Meeg Pincus
Illustrated by:
Alexander Vidal
ISBN: 9781534461857
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Eat Bugs!: Project Startup #1

Eat Bugs!

By: Laura D'Asaro, Rose Wang, and Heather Alexander
Illustrated by:
Vanessa Flores
ISBN: 9780593096178
Fiction, 7-12, Science
 
Einstein: The Fantastic Journey of a Mouse Through Space and Time

Einstein

By: Torben Kuhlmann
Illustrated by:
Torben Kuhlmann
ISBN: 9780735844445
Fiction, 7-12, Animals
 
From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves

From Here to There

By: Vivian Kirkfield
Illustrated by:
Gilbert Ford
ISBN: 9781328560919
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Glasses: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea

Glasses

By: Lori Haskins Houran
Illustrated by:
John Joven
ISBN: 9781635924251
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem

The Great Stink

By: Colleen Paeff
Illustrated by:
Nancy Carpenter
ISBN: 9781534449299
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Lady Bird Johnson, That’s Who!

Lady Bird Johnson, That’s Who!

By: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Illustrated by:
Ginnie Hsu
ISBN: 9781250240361
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest

The Leaf Detective

By: Heather Lang
Illustrated by:
Jana Christy
ISBN: 9781684371778
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla

A Life Electric

By: Azadeh Westergaard
Illustrated by:
Júlia Sardà
ISBN: 9780593114605
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Light Bulb: Eureka! The Biography of an Idea

Light Bulb

By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Illustrated by:
Stephanie Dehennin
ISBN: 9781635923964
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi!

Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi!

By: Art Coulson
Illustrated by:
Madelyn Goodnight
ISBN: 9781623542030
Fiction, 4-6, Math
 
Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum

Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum

By: Natasha Yim
Illustrated by:
Violet Kim
ISBN: 9781623541309
Fiction, 4-6, Math
 
Maxine Greatest Garden Ever

Maxine Greatest Garden Ever

By: Ruth Spiro
Illustrated by:
Holly Hatam
ISBN: 9780399186301
Fiction, 4-6, Science
 
Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature

Mimic Makers

By: Kristen Nordstrom
Illustrated by:
Paul Boston
ISBN: 9781580899475
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries: Ten Interactive Adventures in Mathematical Wonderland

Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries

By: Eugenia Cheng
Illustrated by:
Aleksandra Artymowska
ISBN: 9781536217100
Nonfiction, 7-12, How-to / Activity
 
Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica

Race to the Bottom of the Earth

By: Rebecca E. F. Barone
ISBN: 9781250257802
Nonfiction, 7-12, Action / Adventure
 
Scene Of The Crime: Tracking Down Criminals with Forensic Science

Scene Of The Crime

By: HP Newquist
ISBN: 9780451476463
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist

Secrets of the Sea

By: Evan Griffith
Illustrated by:
Joanie Stone
ISBN: 9780358244325
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
A Shot in the Arm!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #3

A Shot in the Arm!

By: Don Brown
ISBN: 9781419750014
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Someone Builds the Dream

Someone Builds the Dream

By: Lisa Wheeler
ISBN: 9781984814333
Fiction, 4-6, Science
 
The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe

The Stuff Between the Stars

By: Sandra Nickel
Illustrated by:
Aimée Sicuro
ISBN: 9781419736261
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

Thank You, Dr. Salk!

By: Dean Robbins
Illustrated by:
Mike Dutton
ISBN: 9780374313913
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Uma Wimple Charts Her House

Uma Wimple Charts Her House

By: Reif Larsen and Ben Gibson
ISBN: 9780593181188
Fiction, 4-6, Concepts
 
Upstream, Downstream: Exploring Watershed Connections

Upstream, Downstream

By: Rowena Rae
ISBN: 9781459823921
Fiction, 7-12, Science
 
What Is Nintendo?

What Is Nintendo?

By: Gina Shaw and Who HQ
Illustrated by:
Andrew Thomson
ISBN: 9780593093795
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Wonder Women of Science: Twelve Geniuses Who Are Currently Rocking Science, Technology, and the World

Wonder Women of Science

By: Tiera Fletcher and Ginger Rue
Illustrated by:
Sally Wern Comport
ISBN: 9781536207347
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
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