Entering Grade 6
Science
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Human Body Theater by Maris Wicks
A comics format tour of the human body with lots of information told in a fun way. (nonfiction) |
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
The story of one amazing bird, banded in 1995, as part of a study of the endangered rufa red knots, that migrated 9,000 miles twice a year for twenty years. (nonfiction) |
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Poop Detectives: Working Dogs in the Field by Ginger Wadsworth
Scientists can learn a lot about endangered animals from their scat, located by specially trained dogs, without disturbing or harming the animals. |
 
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Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat by Gail Jarrow
In 1902, a strange sickness began to show up in the American South. As the numbers of people with the symptoms of weakness, rash, delirium and death rose to epidemic proportions, scientists raced to find the cause and a cure. (nonfiction) |
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Strange, Unusual, Gross & Cool Animals by Animal Planet
Includes weird animals like the common potoo, the blobfish and the naked mole rat. |
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Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series) by Loree Griffin Burns
What happens when shipping containers spill thousands of Nike sneakers or rubber ducks into the ocean? Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer decides to investigate how trash travels and how it damages fragile ocean ecosystems on the way. (nonfiction) |