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Author Adams, Douglas
Title Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Keywords  sun, galaxy, orbit, planet, oceans, Ursa Minor, astrophysicist, Earth, hyperspace, star system, Orion Beta, fermentation, ionosphere, electromagnetism, moon, wavelength, nebula, atmosphere, elements, spectoscopy
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis A fun, science fiction story about a man from Earth who is picked up and travels through space and the galaxy to explore different planets.
Activity Links http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/universe/
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/roadtrip_nobar.swf

Author Allende, Isabel
Title City of the Beasts
Keywords  Amazon, jaguars, native indians, river, rainforest, canopy, anthropologist
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis A teenage boy accompanies his Aunt on an expedition down the Amazon to search for a lost Yeti-like beast. They encounter a tribe known as the people of the mist and smugglers involved in the illegal exotic animals trade.
Activity Links http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
http://www.ran.org/info_center/
http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/rforest.html

Author Alten, Steve
Title Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror
Keywords  sharks, megalodon, oceans, trench, marine canyons, paleontologist, submarines
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Paleontologist studying the ocean floor discovers living Megalogon shark; tries to capture pregnant female
Activity Links http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/students/researcher.htm
http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/evolution/guide.htm
http://www.elasmo.com

Author Anderson, Laurie Halse
Title Fever 1793
Keywords  yellow fever, epidemic, mosquitos
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis A fictional story of the true yellow fever that swept through Philadelphia in 1793 misconceptions about cause of the fever and how it spread
Activity Links http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceHowVirusesTravel58.htm
http://www.uncw.edu/smec/gk_fellows/Documents/EpidemicInstruction.pdf
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson404/DiseasesBooks.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/lessons/lp_virus.html

Author Atwater, Richard & Florence
Title Mr. Popper's Penguins
Keywords  penguins, adaptations, insulation, climate, nesting, Antarctica
Reading Level 4th-7th grade
Synopsis A painter who dreams of being a scientist receives a penguin from the Antarctic explorer Admiral Drake; describes penguin behavior, reproduction, growth and development; adaptations to cold
Activity Links http://www.gma.org/surfing/antarctica/index.html
http://passporttoknowledge.com/scic/adaptation/educators/stayingwarm.html
http://www.ch4549.org/antarcti/insulat.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/lesson_plans/underice.html

Author Avi
Title Windcatcher
Keywords  islands, weather, wind, water currents
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Discusses weather involved in sailing, the formation of islands and land masses, the wind and water currents around islands and inlets, the physical aspects a boy encounters while sailing and hunting for treasure and a sunken ship.
Activity Links http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/sailing/index.htm
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html

Author Azimov, Isaac
Title Fantastic Voyage
Keywords  circulation, organs, miniaturization, fluid dynamics, immune response, blood cells, aorta, brain, eye, valves
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Microscopic exploration of the human body via the circulatory system.
Activity Links http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/cecsci/cecsci021.html
http://www.eduref.org/cgibin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Anatomy/ANA0001.html
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

Author Babbitt, Natalie
Title Tuck Everlasting
Keywords  aging, youth, life cycles, forest
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A girl is kidnapped in a forest where a family guards a spring that promises eternal youth. Girl deals with decision to drink from the spring or continue with the normal cycle of her life greedy man wants to market the springs water.
Activity Links http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9801/13/life.extention/
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID6DocID191
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID200
http://www.secretsofaging.org/longevity/lifespan.html

Author Bakker, Robert
Title Raptor Red
Keywords  evolution, geologic time, fossils, dinosaurs
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Description of geologic time and changes through the eyes of one dinosaur and her family.
Activity Links http://www.palaeos.com/Timescale/timescale.html
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/
http://www.geosociety.org/educate/LessonPlans/i_paleo.htm

Author Barth, Richard
Title Jumper
Keywords  engineering, gravity, Gforces, friction, velocity, osteomyelitis, scale models, roller coaster, safety, lasers, computers
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Engineer designs, constructs, and tests new roller coaster ride that can jump through the air analyzes the forensics of a wreck caused by sabotage.
Activity Links http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Science/Physics/book/rcs/home.html
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physics/PHS0041.html
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/rollercoaster/
http://www.vast.org/vip/book/home.htm

Author Baum, Frank
Title The Wizard of Oz
Keywords  tornado, cyclone, wind, pressure
Reading Level 4th-7th grade
Synopsis Description of the changing air pressure as tornado forms Chapter 1.
Activity Links http://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/workshop.htm
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/teacher/tornado_bottle.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/vortex.html
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/WOP/Vortex.html

Author Bennett, Cherie
Title Zink
Keywords  leukemia, disease, zebras, savannahs, Serengeti plains, Africa, ecology, animal behavior
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A 6th grade girl diagnosed with leukemia, imagines she is helping a zebra living on the Serengeti plains. Describes the ecology of the plains environment, behavior of zebras, and physical impacts and treatment of leukemia.
Activity Links http://serengeti.org/
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-zebra.html
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/AdoptSpecies/AnimalInfo/Zebra/default.cfm

Author Bial Raymond
Title A Handful of Dirt
Keywords  soil dirt microorganisms worms compost
Reading Level 3rd6th grade
Synopsis Visual study of the living components of soil.
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Author Bond, Nancy
Title The Voyage Begun
Keywords  climate, weather, pollution, energy, environment
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Futuristic story set in Cape Cod after most of Earths energy sources have been depleted due to global changes in climate, weather and pollution. Describes impact on the environment.
Activity Links http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/earth/earth4.html
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Environment.html#Air
http://www.uncw.edu/smec/gk_fellows/Documents/NaturalResourcesToT.pdf

Author Bradbury, Ray
Title The Martian Chronicles
Keywords  Mars, colonization, racism
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Collection of short stories about the colonization of Mars.
Activity Links http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/portals/beagle.shtml
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/mars_rocket2.shtml
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/MITC/overview/
http://chapters.marssociety.org/youth/mc/

Author Brown, Dan
Title Deception Point
Keywords  meteor, ice, arctic, fossils, NASA, ethics
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A team of scientists report that they have found a large meteor imbedded in the ice above the Arctic cirlce. Insect like fossils imbedded in the meteor suggest that there is extraterrestrial life. Unfortunately, it may all be a hoax
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Author Butler, Susan
Title The Hermit Thrush Sings
Keywords  asteroid, species, mutations,
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis One hundred years ago a meteor struck earth causing some plants, animals and humans to form mutations, including a man-like cannibal. A young girl with webbed hands fears how she will be treated and rebels against her villages rulers.
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Author Butterworth, Oliver
Title The Enormous Egg
Keywords  eggs, chickens, dinosaurs, paleontologist, extinction
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Farm boy finds an enormous egg under one of his chickens and cares for it until it hatches out as a dinosaur, a Triceratops to be exact. Boy consults with paleontologist to care for dinosaur.
Activity Links http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinoeggs/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/Dinoegg.shtml

Author Cameron, Eleanor
Title The Wonderful Flight to Mushroom Planet
Keywords  space, planet, rockets, spaceship, fuel, telescopes, astronomy
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Two boys build a homemade spaceship to travel to an alien planet. Describes how they build it, development of a rocket fuel formula, and the workings inside an observatory.
Activity Links http://www.aia-aerospace.org/aianews/features/team_america/index.cfm
http://www.alaskascience.com/rocketmain.htm
http://www.lightwave.soton.ac.uk/experiments/telescope/telescope.html
http://hubblesite.org/fun_.and._games/

Author Capeci, Anne
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #6: The Giant Germ
Keywords  germs, microbes, microbiology, bacteria, mold, cells
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Mrs. Frizzle and her class study the world of microbiology. They encounter molds and bacteria and learn the basics of microbiology.
Activity Links

Author Capeci, Anne
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #11: Insect Invaders
Keywords  insects, bugs, arthropods, exoskeleton, pollination, food chain
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Mrs. Frizzle takes her students on a field trip to learn about the insect world. They study insect anatomy, locomotion, predation and their benefits and detriments to man.
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Author Capeci, Anne
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #17: Food Chain Frenzy
Keywords  food chain, ecosystems, energy, producers, consumers, predators, carnivores, herbivores
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Mrs. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to study the different trophic levels in a food chain. Students learn about the flow of energy through a chain, producers and consumers, and predators and prey.
Activity Links

Author Capeci, Anne
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #14: Electric Storm
Keywords  weather, storms, lightning, electricity, humidity, clouds, thunder
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Mrs. Frizzle and her students take a field trip to study the weather. During a storm they learn about static electricity and how lightning forms.
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Author Card, Orson Scott
Title Ender's Game
Keywords  aliens, selective breeding, genetics, experimentation, genius
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis After aliens almost wipe out the human race, survivors selectively breed a group of military geniuses and train them using "games" to protect the remaining human population.
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Author Carmi, Rebecca
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #10: Expedition Down Under
Keywords  ecosystem, Australia, kangaroo, grasslands, marsupials, wildlife, land bridge, pangaea
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Mrs. Frizzle and her students travel to Australia to study the unusual wildlife that inhabits the continent, including a kangaroo, wallaby, echidna, and kookaburra. They learn about the geologic history of Australia.
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Author Carmi, Rebecca
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #12: Amazing Magnetism
Keywords  magnetism, metal, iron, orientation, poles, attraction
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Mrs. Frizzle challenges another teachers class to a science contest involving magnetism. Her students discover which materials can be magnetized, learn about laws of attraction and repulsion, molecular orientation, and polarity.
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Author Carr, Caleb
Title Killing Time
Keywords  technology, cyberspace, internet, genetic engineering, pollution, ecology, disease
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis An apocalyptic tale of the future when technology has gone wild. Continents are ravaged by disease, famine, blight, pollution, and war. Genetically engineered scientists travel the planet detailing what has happened.
Activity Links

Author Chabon, Michael
Title Summerland
Keywords  weather, baseball, atmosphere, blimp/balloon
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Fantasy story about small beings called Ferishers who ensure that there is always perfect weather for baseball. They are threatened by an ancient enemy and only a baseball player can save them. They travel in a makeshift airship describing weather.
Activity Links http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/
http://whyfiles.org/152baseball/
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/wmodify.htm
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/lightning.html

Author Clarke, Arthur C.
Title The Fountains of Paradise
Keywords  space, elevator, technology, engineering, exploration, gravity, weather, ionosphere, materials science
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Science fiction classic involving the construction of a space elevator by a world reknown engineer. Gravity, weather and the ionosphere, and futuristic building materials all figure prominently in the process of conceptualizing the complicated project.
Activity Links http://www.zadar.net/space-elevator
http://www.spaceelevator.com/
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57536,00.html
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep%5F1.htm

Author Coerr, Eleanor
Title Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Keywords  radiation, leukemia, atomic bomb, origami, blood count, apetite loss, chemotherapy
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Radiation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima causes leukemia in a young girl
Activity Links http://www.42explore2.com/nuclear.htm
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=424
http://www.lbl.gov/abc/index.html
http://nasaexplores.com/lessons/02-016/5-8_article.html

Author Cole, Shelia
Title The Dragon in the Cliff
Keywords  fossils, dinosaurs, beach, cliffs, icthyosaur
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Loosely based on the life of Mary Anning a 13 year old girl who collected fossils from Britain's cliffs in the early 1800's. Story focuses on the prejudices she experienced because she was a girl scientist; the types of fossils she discovered.
Activity Links

Author Colfer, Eoin
Title Artemis Fowl
Keywords  computers, technology, subterranean society, symbology
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Characters are highly adept at using futuristic technology, including computers and time freezing. There is and underground society of fairies who consume rocks and soils. Translation of a symbol based language like hieroglyphics.
Activity Links

Author Collins, Suzanne
Title Gregor the Overlander
Keywords  underground, subterranean, rodents, rats, cockroaches, bats, spiders
Reading Level 4th-young adult
Synopsis A fantasy story about a young boy who discovers a subterranean world inhabited by giant cockroaches, bats, spiders and vicious rats who are holding his father prisoner.
Activity Links

Author Crichton, Michael
Title Jurassic Park
Keywords  dinosaurs, genetic enginnering, DNA, fossils
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Scientist isolate dinosaur DNA from fossilized mosquito blood, genetically engineers into frog to produce dinosaurs that terrrorize island park.
Activity Links http://www.fathom.com/feature/121693/
http://www.shodor.org/ssep/lessons/jurassic/
http://www.jpinstitute.com/index.jsp
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=1&DocID=128

Author Crichton, Michael
Title The Andromeda Strain
Keywords  germs, bacteriology, decontamination, pH, pathogens, space-probes, mutation
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis An army space-probe searching for pathogens to use in biological warfare re-enters Earth's atmosphere carrying extra-terrestrial bacteria. Scientist search for a way to control the contamination by studying the few survivors at the landing site.
Activity Links

Author Crichton, Michael
Title Prey
Keywords  nanotechnology, microparticles, biotechnology, bacteriophage, artificial intelligence, swarm, computers, robots
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A swarm of optical micro-robots engineered in a nanotechnology research lab exhibit artificial intelligence and begin to attack living things.
Activity Links http://www.itsananoworld.org/whatisnano.htm
http://www.mrsec.wisc.edu/edetc/index.html
http://nanokids.rice.edu/

Author Crichton, Michael
Title State of Fear
Keywords  global warming, environment, icebergs, volcanoe, ethics
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Adventure story centered on the controversy surrounding global warming. A renegade scientist who wants more funding for research stages several natural disasters to convince the world that global warming is real and will result in impending disaster.
Activity Links

Author Cussler, Clive
Title Iceberg
Keywords  Iceberg, Iceland, arctic ocean, tundra, oceanographer, submarine
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis The remnants of a burned ship are discovered frozen in an iceberg. When scientist try to investigate, they are attacked and forced to flee across the arctic tundra and ocean.
Activity Links

Author Cussler, Clive
Title Flood Tide
Keywords  Mississippi river, delta, smuggling, submarine, scuba diving
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Evil billionaire who smuggles Chinese immigrants into the USA plans to divert the Mississippi River so that he can find a sunken ship filled with artifacts.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Shockwave
Keywords  diamonds, plague, sea mammals, shockwave, technology
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Sea mammals are dying off of Antarctica. While investigating the source of this plague, scientists discover the cause is actually a shockwave from a new technology being used to harvest diamonds.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Fire Ice
Keywords  tidal wave, methane, pressure, deep-sea, mining, explosives, submarine
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Russian mining mogul tries to harvest the methane hydrate that is found off the eastern coast of the USA. Under intense pressure, it forms a solid like ice. At the surface it is highly explosive like fire.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Valhalla Rising
Keywords  engines, friction, water-power, oil, submarine, Vikings
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A scientist invents a type of frictionless oil and a water-powered engine. An oil conglomerate will go to any length to keep the inventions off the market so they can monopolize the worlds oil supply.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Blue Gold
Keywords  fresh water, whales, desalination, submarines, eco-terrorist, bio-pirates
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis When scientists discover a pod of dead whales they investigate off the Baja coast of Mexico. They encounter an eco-terrorist who is trying to monopolize the earths fresh water and a new technology for removing salt.
Activity Links

Author Cussler, Clive
Title Raise the Titanic
Keywords  elements, chemicals, submarine, hurricane
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis The president of the USA has plans for a new defense system. It requires a rare element that no longer exists in nature, but a large quantity of it was part of the cargo on the Titanic. Scientists try to recover the element.
Activity Links

Author Cussler, Clive
Title Vixen 03
Keywords  virulent, germ, bioengineering, bacteriology, bioterrorism
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis In 1954 a plane carrying doomsday bombs filled with deadly germs sinks in a frozen lake in Colorado. More than 30 years later the plane is found, but some of its deadly cargo is missing. Terrorists have the germs and plan to use them against the USA.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Polar Shift
Keywords  magnetism, orientation, migration, electric, climate, earthquake
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Polar shift describes change in the magnetic poles that cause disorientation in animals, disruption of electric fields, and triggers massive climate change. By creating an artificial shift, a mad man wants to rule the world.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Pacific Vortex
Keywords  vortex, Hawaii, island, nuclear, submarine, scuba diving
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis One of the USAs most powerful nuclear submarines is lost in a a pacific ocean vortex of the coast of Hawaii where dozens of other ships have gone missing. When divers try to salvage it they are attacked.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Black Wind
Keywords  virus, toxicology, disease, chimera, pollution, rockets, submarine, scuba-diving
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A rogue group of scientists create a deadly chimera from the aids and smallpox viruses. They plan to spread the chimera across the west coast of the USA by deploying a rocket from an offshore platform.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Inca Gold
Keywords  geology, caves, rainforest, underground river, desert
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Underwater marine engineers explore a subterranean river system in Mexico. Great descriptions of the geology and cavern formation.
Activity Links http://www.explorethecaverns.com/lessons/lesson1.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/caves04.htm
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave.html
http://www.nps.gov/ozar/claycave.htm

Author Cussler, Clive
Title Trojan Odyssey
Keywords  hurricanes, meteorologist, geology, underwater habitat, marine caves, fuel cells
Reading Level adult
Synopsis Marine engineers describe a rescue operation during a severe hurricane. Scientists in an underwater habitat discover deep sea caves. Kidnapped scientists work on the development of fuel cells using nitrogen and water.
Activity Links http://www.netl.doe.gov/coolscience/teacher/lesson-plans/lesson6.html
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-cell1.htm
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/ragingplanet-hurricane/

Author Cussler, Clive
Title Deep Six
Keywords  poison, chemicals, ocean, Alaska
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A highly toxic chemical is killing anything and anyone that comes in contact with it off of the Alaskan coast. The responsible party is also trying to kidnap the president of the USA.
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Author Cussler, Clive
Title Sahara
Keywords  biochemist, disease, desert, pollution
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A biochemist from the UN is trying to discover the cause of a deadly disease spreading through Africa. It appears to be related to massive chemical pollution purposefully leaked into the ocean.
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Author Dahl, Roald
Title James and the Giant Peach
Keywords  atmosphere, weather, oceans, insects, microbes
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Encounters of a young boy who discovers a world of insects inside a giant peach. The peach and its inhabitants travel across oceans filled with sharks and skies filled with seagulls. Cloud men bombard the peach with weather.
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Author Dahl, Roald
Title Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator
Keywords  space travel, gravity, jet propulsion, rockets, space station, communication links
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Fantasy involving an elevator that travels through space on skyhooks to a space station hotel.
Activity Links

Author Davis, Mike
Title Land of the Lost Mammoths
Keywords  mammoths, inbreeding, glaciers, iceberg, geothermal vents, tundra, ice caves, valleys, ultra-lite flyer, arctic hurricane
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Teenage scientists travel to Greenland to study at a research center and go on an expedition to discover a long lost tribe of people and mammoths. Theyexperience ice bergs calving, an arctic hurricane, exploring an ice cave, and riding mammoths.
Activity Links http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/siberia/
http://www.robby.nstemp.com/custom3.html
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/woollymammoth/

Author DeFelice, Cynthia
Title The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Keywords  fossils, cliffs
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis This is a ghost story in which the main character is a sixth grade girl who collects fossils. One day she almost falls off of a cliff while hunting for fossils. She hears a ghost.
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Author Dickinson, Peter
Title The Weathermonger
Keywords  weather, storms, lightning, fog, wind, myth, science
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Accounts the adventures of a young girl and her brother who can control the weather. They are shunned from their village because of their weathercausing powers and go on a quest to return after fleeing.
Activity Links http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/lightning.html
http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/teacher/course/cloud.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/05/27/bugs.weather/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1281146.html

Author Dickinson, Peter
Title Eva
Keywords  transplant, brains, chimpanzees, animal rights, animal communication, humans, cubic, paralyzed, kilometers, endorphin, zoology, neuron memory, gene, mutation, trait
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis A teenage girl is horribly crushed in a car accident. The only way to save her is to transplant her brain into a chimpanzee. She learns to communicate with the chimps body and comes to personify its feelings and exert chimpanzee rights.
Activity Links http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/0112/chimps.html
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1108/teaching/teaching2.htm
http://www.janegoodall.org/
http://www.koko.org/

Author Dickinson, Peter
Title A Bone From a Dry Sea
Keywords  bone, fossils, archeology, Africa, apes, hominids, sea, tsunami
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Tells the story of a 4 million year old ape-like hominid tribe dependent on the sea for food; and, a present day archeology dig that finds a fossil of one of the ape-hominids in the remains of the dried up sea bed; they try to infer the fate of the tribe.
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Author Dr. Seuss
Title Horton Hatches the Egg
Keywords  species, hybrid, eggs, bird, elephant
Reading Level all ages
Synopsis An elephant devotes himself to hatching a bird egg; hatchling is a cross (hybrid) between elephant and bird.
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Author Dr. Seuss
Title McElligots Pool
Keywords 
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Author describes how small pool could be fed by and underground river that empties into the sea wide diversity of fish live in different area of the oceans including tropics and the artic.
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Author Dr. Seuss
Title Horton Hears A Who
Keywords  magnification, microscopic, population, sound
Reading Level all ages
Synopsis Story contrasting size differences between an elephant and the microscopic population living on a speck of dust that he is protecting, but no one can hear.
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Author Dr. Seuss
Title Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
Keywords  seasons, daylight, antlers, symbiosis, commensalism, hormones, nutrition
Reading Level all ages
Synopsis A moose allows some small creatures to rest on his antlers; soon the antlers are covered with free-loading creatures who offer no benefit to the moose; when seasons change the antlers fall off and creatures, too!
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Author Dr. Seuss
Title The Lorax
Keywords  ecology, conservation, air pollution, smog, trees, water pollution, endangered species
Reading Level all ages
Synopsis Story of the Lorax who speaks for the trees, detailing how environment became polluted and plants and animals ecologically endangered.
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Author DuBrul, Jack B.
Title Vulcan's Forge
Keywords  volcanoes, geology, engineer, nuclear power, minerals, ocean floor, deep-sea vents
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Espionage story concerning an underwater volcanoe that is producing a mineral which is more powerful than Uranium and may provide limitless nuclear power.
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Author Duffey, Betsy
Title Coaster
Keywords  roller coaster, safety testing, motion sickness
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Two boys build a wooden roller coaster in the woods descriptions of physical and emotional sensations while riding a coaster.
Activity Links http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/webquest/content/rollercoast.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20020625tuesday.html
http://www.biopoint.com/traversecity/coasters.htm
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Science/Physics/book/rcs/home.html

Author DuPrau
Title The People of the Sparks
Keywords  subterranean society, caves, skylight, green plants, plagues, disasters, fire
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Sequel to the City of Ember. The people who had been living underground escape to the surface where they see green plants, flying animals, and the sunlight for the first time. Conflicts arise with other survivors who already live above ground.
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Author DuPrau, Jeanne
Title The City of Ember
Keywords  electricity, generator, light, subterranean society
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis In an underground world of total darkness the only source of light comes from a huge generator. Everyone must learn how to operate it. People are restricted from trying to leave underground. Two children discover a way to the surface and sky.
Activity Links http://science.howstuffworks.com/vdg3.htm
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/energyefficiency/
http://amasci.com/amateur/coilgen.html
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/nttidb/lessons/az/azbattery.html

Author Ehrenhaft, Daniel
Title The Last Dog on Earth
Keywords  canine, disease, vaccine, immune system, quarantine, electronics, gadgets
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A boy who likes to invent electronic gadgets doesnt get along with anyone until he adopts a mangy mutt. When a disease starts causing dogs to become vicious, a scientist discovers that the mangy mutt is immune.
Activity Links http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/index.html

Author Emigh, Ullie
Title Nika Watters in the Case of th Misplaced Fossil
Keywords  fossils, dinosaur, archeology, paleontology, rocks
Reading Level 4th-7th grade
Synopsis A young girl travels to Germany where her mother is working on an archeological dig. She uses her knowledge of dinosaurs and bones to help identify an unusual object found at the dig.
Activity Links http://www.nikawatters.com/teachers.html

Author Farmer, Nancy
Title The House of the Scorpion
Keywords  cloning, DNA, poppy fields, opium, addiction, mind control, toxicology, computer chips
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Clone of a drug czar works as a slave in the border lands between USA &Mexico. Slaves have computer implants for tracking. Cloning technology and plant biology & toxicology of opium is discussed.
Activity Links http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/clickandclone/
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml

Author Farmer, Nancy
Title The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Keywords  nuclear power, toxic waste, radiation sickness, elements, diseases, genetics
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis The title characters have special powers as a result of nuclear contanimation in the drinking water description of African desert ecology
Activity Links http://www.ncsu.edu/scivis/lessons/halflife/halflife2.html
http://nasaexplores.com/lessons/02-016/5-8_article.html
http://www.42explore2.com/nuclear.htm
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=4&DocID=178

Author Gardiner, John Reynolds
Title Top Secret
Keywords  photosynthesis, chlorophyll, hemoglobin, iron, magnesium
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Science fair project analyzing the difference between hemoglobin and chlorophyll; why animals can't synthesize their own food.
Activity Links http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/worksheets/activ/prac5.htm
http://biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/lessons2/Roxane/photo.htm

Author George, Jean Craighead
Title Julie of the Wolves
Keywords  Alaska, arctic, seasons, wolves, ocean, caribou, seal, lichens, tundra, North Star, hibernation, iron-deficiency
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A young girl's account of her trek across the arctic tundra where she learns to live with wolves. Discusses seasonal changes in the environment and how she learns to interpret them and continue her journey across Alaska.
Activity Links http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/wolves/news/news.html
http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/alaskas_cold_desert/
http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/wolves/index.html
http://www.goals.com/classrm/classfrm.htm

Author George, Jean Craighead
Title My Side of the Mountain
Keywords  nature, environment, trapping, hunting, tracking, fishing, edible plants, survival, wilderness, mountains, streams, falcon, weasel, weather, seasons
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Classic adventure of young boy who decides to live in the wilderness of the Catskills Mountains. He makes his home in a hollowed out tree, befriends a falcon, lives off the land, and tries to protect the environment.
Activity Links http://www.wilderness-survival.net/
http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/enviredu.html
http://cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_circulars/circ561.html
http://www.edibleplants.com/wepnut_frames.htm

Author George, Jean Craighead
Title The Talking Earth
Keywords  hurricane, alligators, mosquitoes, swamp, nuclear waste, pollution
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Young indian girl observes ecology of the everglades and effects of a hurricane.
Activity Links http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/landpeople_teachers_ever.htm
http://www.nps.gov/ever/ed/activities/46activity/46eeactive.htm
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/bi/1997/mosquito/
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=79

Author George, Jean Craighead
Title Frightful's Mountain
Keywords  falcons, flight, pollution, poachers, environment, endangered animals
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Story told from the point of view of a peregrine falcon who is released into the wild and must survive in the wilderness. Survival is complicated by pollution and poachers.
Activity Links http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/enviredu.html

Author Golden, Christopher
Title Body Bags
Keywords  forensics, pathology, dissection, anatomy
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis About a girl who gets a job as a pathology assistant. Some in depth detail about the autopsy process and the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner.
Activity Links http://www.fbi.gov/kids/6th12th/6th12th.htm
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/whodidit
http://agrippina.bcs.deakin.edu.au/bcs_courses/forensic/Chemical%20Detective/index.htm

Author Haggard, H. Rider
Title King Solomon's Mines
Keywords  Desert, geography, diamonds, altitutde, mining
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Discusses a journey across a great desert and high mountains and the geography, geology, ecology of the area.
Activity Links http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/lesson.plans/11/20/diamond.science/
http://people.howstuffworks.com/diamond1.htm
http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/outreach/africa/africa.html
http://www.southafrica-travel.net/pages/e_geolog.htm

Author Halam, Ann
Title Taylor Five
Keywords  clone, biotechnology, testtube baby, Borneo, orangutan, conservation, fever
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Main character finds out that she is one of 5 clones lives with adopted parents in Borneo on a private conservation reserve and study oranguatans rebels attack the reserve and Taylor must save orangutan describes rainforest, oranguatan, cloning issues.
Activity Links http://www.orangutan.org/home/home.php
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/scienceline/archives/jan99/jan99_2.shtm
http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/

Author Hall, James
Title Mean High Tide
Keywords  invasive species, exotics, everglades, coral reef, fish, eclogy, diving
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis The villian in this story wants to destroy the biodiversity of Florida by genetically modifying a fish and turning it loose in the everglades where it will have devastating consequences on the coastal ecology.
Activity Links

Author Hall, James
Title Gone Wild
Keywords  poaching, orangutan, endangered species, jungle
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis While helping conduct a census of orangutans in the jungle of Borneo, a girl is murdered by poachers involved in the exotic animal trade. Her mother fights to stop them and the illegal trading of endangered species.
Activity Links

Author Hamilton, Virginia
Title Bluish A Novel
Keywords  cancer, chemotherapy, anemia, side effects
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Effects of chemotherapy on the human body. A young girl attends school while undergoing treatment that turns her bluish in color.
Activity Links http://www.cancercare.org/Children?ChildrenList.cfm?c512

Author Hansen, Eric
Title Orchid Fever
Keywords  plants, botany, orchids, endangered species, ecology, biopirates
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Story about the obsession orchid collectors have for rare endangered species, the illegal extremes they will go to obtain orchids, the money to be made in exotic species trafficing, and the development of eco-police.
Activity Links

Author Heinlein, Robert
Title Farmer in the Sky
Keywords  overpopulation, rocketry, soil, atmosphere
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis A young boy and his father become new colonists on Gamymede, moon of Jupiter. They must make their farm by grinding rock into soil and adding nutrients. An earthquake strikes and the atmosphere breaks down, freezing everything.
Activity Links http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Services/Education/SpaceSettlement/
http://www.the-planet-mars.com/education.html

Author Helmer, Marilyn
Title Dinosaurs on the Beach
Keywords  fossils, bones, beach
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis A young girl collects tiny fossil bones on the beach while visiting her grandfather in Nova Scotia. She wants to identify the bones before anyone else does.
Activity Links

Author Herbert, Frank
Title Dune
Keywords  desert, planet, water, recycling, ecology, space, worms
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Epic saga of life on a desert planet. Amazing description of the ecology of the environment, technology for water recycling.
Activity Links

Author Herman, Gail
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #19: Color Day Relay
Keywords  light, wavelength, speed, color, prism, refraction
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Mrs. Frizzles class is participating in a relay race. They learn about light and color, specifically the different speeds at which the different colors of light travel.
Activity Links

Author Hesse, Karen
Title Phoeniz Rising
Keywords  radiation, nuclear-power, poisoning, disease, contamination
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Story about the impact of a nuclear-power plant accident on the lives of people living in a small town in Vermont. Describes the medical problems related to radiation sickness as seen through the eyes of a young survivor caring for the sick.
Activity Links

Author Hesse, Karen
Title Out of the Dust
Keywords  drought, dust bowl, weather, storms, fire crops, tumbleweeds, skin cancer, scars
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis This journal chronicles a young girls experiences during the Oklahoma dust bowls of the depression; a fire kills her mother and scars her hands; she runs away from home and travels west; later she learns to re-use her hands to play the piano.
Activity Links

Author Hesse, Karen
Title The Music of Dolphins
Keywords  dolphins, animal communication, language, sea
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Scientist discover girl who has been raised by dolphins and can communicate with them in their language.
Activity Links

Author Hiaasen, Carl
Title Hoot
Keywords  owls, Florida, everglades, alligators, snakes, ospreys
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Details the account of middle-school aged children as they attempt to preserve burrowing owls from the construction of a restaurant that will destroy their natural habitat and lead to their extinction.
Activity Links

Author Hiaasen, Carl
Title Stormy Weather
Keywords  hurricane, everglades, wetlands
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A somewhat adult comedy about the impact of Hurricane Andrew on the lives of humans and other animals living in Florida.
Activity Links

Author Hobbs, Will
Title The Maze
Keywords  ornithology, endangered species, Condors, canyons
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Runaway boy accidentally meets up with an ornithologist who is trying to release fledgling California condors back into the wild.
Activity Links

Author Hobbs, Will
Title Wild Man Island
Keywords  Alaska, archology, Stone Age, caves, paleontology, wolves, tools
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A boy struggles to survive in Alaska after a storm blows his kayak off course. He discovers a cave filled with evidence of Stone Age life. He is befriended by a dog who lives with wolves.
Activity Links

Author Holch, Gregory J.
Title The Thing With Wings
Keywords  butterfly, metamorphosis, habitat, migration, wings
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Fantasy story about a magical tree and the butterflies that live on it. When humans eat the fruit from the tree, they go through metamorphosis and develop wings that enable them to fly.
Activity Links

Author Holt, Kimberly Willis
Title When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Keywords  obesity, weight, health
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A coming of age story about a young boy who learns how to treat others with respect after the the world fattest boy comes to his town in a sideshow. Eventually he learns the truth about Zacharys weight.
Activity Links http://www.bam.gov/index.html

Author Hudson, Jan
Title Sweetgrass
Keywords  smallpox, epidemic, fever, infestation, sanitation
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Story tellilng how smallpox spread from white settlements to Indian villages during the westward expansion.
Activity Links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/lost/lesson3.html
http://www.uncw.edu/smec/gk_fellows/Documents/EpidemicInstruction.pdf
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson404/DiseasesBooks.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/lessons/lp_virus.html

Author Hughes, Ted
Title The Iron Woman
Keywords  pollution, toxic waste, poisons, ecology, marsh, environment, recycling, factory
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis An iron woman emerges from a marsh vowing to punish all who have polluted the waters. With some unusual helpers and magic she eventually cleans up the environment and teaches the polluters a lesson.
Activity Links

Author Hunger, Bill
Title Clearcut: A novel of bio-consequences
Keywords  disease, rain forest, clear -cutting, herbs, homeopathy, Malaysia
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A terrible disease is rapidly wiping out the human population. A healer knows of an herb that might be a cure, but loggers have destroyed its habitat. The herb is found in Malaysia but clear-cutting may destroy it, too.
Activity Links

Author Ibbotson, Eva
Title Journey to the River Sea
Keywords  Amazon, Brazil, orchids, birds, parrots, river, insects, sloth, native indians
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Young orphan girl follows governess to live in the rainforest of Brazil where she begins a fantastic adventure down the Amazon river in search of a giant sloth.
Activity Links

Author Ihimaera, Witi
Title The Whale Rider
Keywords  whales, earthquakes, migration, Antarctica, sea trenches, sonar, beachings
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Life of whales over generations; describes sonar communication, migration and beaching experiences; deep sea geology related to plate tectonics; marine conditions in Antarctica
Activity Links http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/lesson/social/whale.htm
http://whale.wheelock.edu/Welcome.html
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/Whales/LessonPlans/WhaleSongs.HTML
http://www.whalesong.net/

Author Isdell, Wendy
Title Gebra Named Al
Keywords  algebra, mathematics, chemistry, periodic table
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A young girl is having trouble with algebra until she meets an imaginary-number zebra named Gebra in the Land of Mathematics. She visits places called Orders of Operations. She also encounters chemistrees and learns about the periodic table.
Activity Links

Author Jennings, Richard W.
Title The Great Whales of Kansas
Keywords  fossils, whale, mososaurs, Cretaceous, limestone, paleontology
Reading Level 4th-7th grade
Synopsis A boy digging in his backyard in the middle of Kansas discovers a large fossil skeleton of what appears to be a mososaur - only it is 20 million years too young. A museum and some Native Americans want to have the fossil.
Activity Links

Author Johnson, Angela
Title A Cool Moonlight
Keywords  xeroderma pigmentosum, light sesitivity, chromosomes, UV rays
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis Young girl with a rare disease in her chromosomes called xeroderma pigmentosum, a sun allergy that prevents her from being in the sun.
Activity Links http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_sunscreen_athome.html
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/health/sun_grade6.pdf
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_5_2_23t.htm

Author Johnston, Jennifer
Title Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #7: The Great Shark Escape
Keywords  ocean, sharks, fish, predator
Reading Level 3rd-6th grade
Synopsis During a class trip to the aquarium students end up in the depths of the ocean, where the class has to escape from the jaws of a great white shark. Ms. Frizzle teaches the class all about different shark species.
Activity Links

Author Jones, Ron
Title The Acorn People
Keywords  disabilities, blindness, polio, bladder, muscular sclerosis, acorns
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Story of 5 disabled children who spend a summer at camp overcoming their handicaps and becoming friends.
Activity Links

Author Jonnes, Christopher Bonn
Title Big Ice
Keywords  global warming, iceberg, ice sheet, flood, environmental terrorist
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A polar researcher believes he has found a way to predict when large slabs of the northern ice sheets will calve forming icebergs that can cause environmental problems. A doomsday cult wants to know his secret.
Activity Links

Author Junger, Sebastian
Title The Perfect Storm
Keywords  storms, weather, meteorologist, waves, buoyancy, continental shelf, seamount, Grand Banks, vortex, hurricane, fishing, ocean
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Recounts one of the worst storms in the North Atlantic as experienced by commercial fishermen caught off the Grand Banks during the storm. Describes the weather and ocean in detail.
Activity Links

Author Juster, Norton
Title The Phantom tollbooth
Keywords  time, mathematics, geometry, statistics
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Fantasy story of a boy who travels to unusual locations by way of a magic tollboth. He learns a lot about math and language during his travels.
Activity Links

Author Kaplan, Jay
Title A Chilling Warmth: A tale of global warming
Keywords  global warming, desertification, famine, storms, winds, climate, nuclear war
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis A spaceship from a distant planet lands on an earth that has been devastated by global warming. There are no humans to be found but a tape reveals what has happened to the planet.
Activity Links

Author Karlen, Arno
Title Biography of a Germ
Keywords  microscope, microorganism, microbe, genes, mutations, Lyme disease, adaptations
Reading Level young adult
Synopsis Tells the story of Lyme disease and the bacterium that causes it. Explains the background of microbiology and what a microbe is, including classification schemes.
Activity Links http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/index.html
http://www.umsl.edu/~microbes/

Author Kay, Elizabeth
Title The Divide
Keywords  heart, disease, cures, medicine, continental divide, Costa Rica
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis A young boy suffering from a life-threatening heart condition goes on vacation to Costa Rica with his parents. While standing at the continental divide, he passes out and wakes up in a fantasy world where he meets mthological creatures and finds a cure.
Activity Links

Author Kaye, Marilyn
Title The Beginning
Keywords  cloning, DNA, cell reproduction,
Reading Level 6th-young adult
Synopsis Discusses story of a girl who was the only clone to survive a project her mother worked on as a young scientist.
Activity Links http://www.ncpublicschools.org/nccep/lp/lp99r.html
http://www.robby.nstemp.com/custom3.html
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/

Author Kingsley, Charles
Title The Water Babies
Keywords  human, amphibians, gills, rivers, sea, fish, crustaceans, seaweed, fossils, whales, shell-fish
Reading Level 4th-8th grade
Synopsis Classic story of poor boy who falls into a stream and is turned into a waterbaby by fairies. He develops physical adaptations that allow him to live underwater as he explores his new environment, describing the flora and fauna he sees.
Activity Links

Author Kipling, Rudyard
Title The Jungle Books
Keywords  jungle, wolves, tiger, monkeys, bears, snakes, panthers, fire, hunting, survival
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