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Junior Companion Books

2011-12

Junior companion books complement our featured book.
Enjoy them with your family!
MEDICAL RESEARCH
For middle grade readers
Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self Experimenters in Science & Medicine, Dendy
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science, Fleischman
We Have Conquered Pain: The Discovery of Anesthesia, Fradin
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing, Jurmain
Wounded Brains: True Survival Stories, Markle
Medical Marvels, Nichols
Doctors Did What?!: The Weird History of Medicine , Platt
SCIENTISTS AT WORK
For younder readers
Stone Girl, Bone Girl, Ahholt
The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery, Brighton
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, Brown
Snowflake Bentley, Martin
Greg's Microscope, Selsam
For middle grade readers
The Dragon in the Cliff: A Novel Based on the Life of Mary Anning, Cole
Seabird in the Forest: The Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet , Dunning
Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science, Hughes
Extreme Scientists, Jackson
The Mysterious Universe, Jackson
Hidden Worlds: Looking through a Scientist's Microscope, Kramer
Giants of Science series, Krull
The Manatee Scientists, Lourie
The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery, Markle
The Tarantula Scientist, Montgomery
Science Detectives
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
For middle grade readers
Muckrakers, Bausum
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
For younder readers
White Water, Bandy
White Socks Only, Coleman
Boycott Blues, Pinkney
Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, Pinkney
The School Is Not White!, Rappaport
If a Bus Could Talk, Ringgold
Riding to Washington, Swain
For middle grade readers
Freedom Riders, Bausum
A Thousand Never Evers, Burg
Birmingham Sunday, Brimner
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, Curtis
Freedom Walkers, Freedman
Marching for Freedom, Partridge
The Civil Rights Movement for Kids, Turck

Featured Junior Books
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science book cover
Greg's Microscope bookcover
Hidden Worlds: Looking through a Scientist's Microscope book cover


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