Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students
The books that appear in these lists were selected as outstanding children's science trade books. They were chosen by a book review panel appointed by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council (CBC). NSTA and CBC have joined forces on this bibliographic project since 1973, when the list was known as Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children and was primarily targeted at grades K through 8. Beginning in 2002, the list has been expanded to include high school as well.
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Awards by Year
2020 All In a Drop: How Antony Van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World - Lori Alexander
2020 Amazing Evolution: The Journey of Life - Anna Claybourne
2020 Anna and Samia: The True Story of Saving a Black Rhino by Paul Meisel
2020 Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel (A Young Reader's Adaption) - Carl Safina
2020 A Book About Whales - Andrea Antinori
2020 The Butterfly House - Katy Flint
2020 A Computer Called Katherine - Suzanne Slade
2020 Counting the Stars, the Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician - Lesa Cline-Ransome
2020 Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage - Fabien Grolleau
2020 Dreaming in Code, Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer - Emily Arnold McCully
2020 Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World - Mike Winchell
2020 Evelyn, the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter - Christine Evans
2020 Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and their Data - Jessica Fried-Gaither
2020 Fanatical About Frogs - Owen Davey
2020 The Frog Book - Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
2020 Hawking - Jim Ottaviani
2020 Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor - Laurie Wallmark
2020 Homes In the Wild: Where Baby Animals and Their Parents Live - Lita Judge
2020 Hummingbird - Nicola Davies
2020 Instruction Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future - Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn
2020 Into the Deep: An Exploration of Our Oceans - Wolfgang Dreyer
2020 Look Up with Me, Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars - Jennifer Berne
2020 Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet - Elizabeth Rusch
2020 Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys - Mike Unwin
2020 Moth: An Evolution Story - Isabel Thomas
2020 Nine Months - Miranda Paul
2020 Nose Knows: Wild Ways Animals Smell the World - Emmanuelle Figueras
2020 Not a Butterfly Alphabet Books - Jerry Pallotta
2020 Now You Know What You Eat - Valorie Fisher
2020 One Iguana, Two Iguanas: A Story of Accident, Natural Selection, and Evolution - Sneed B. Collard
2020 Overview, Young Explorer's Edition: A New Way of Seeing Earth - Benjamin Grant with Sandra Markle
2020 Paper World Planet - Bomboland
2020 The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs - Gail Jarrow
2020 Pollen: Darwin's 130-Year Prediction - Darcy Pattison
2020 Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge - Rachel Dougherty
2020 Titanosaur: Discovering the World's Largest Dinosaur - Dr. José Luis Carballido and Dr. Diego Pol
2020 Undaunted: The Wild Life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans - Anita Silvey
2020 Unseen Worlds - Helene Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt
2020 What Miss Mitchell Saw - Hayley Barrett
2020 Wilderness: Earth's Amazing Habitats - Mia Cassany
2020 Woolly Monkey Mysteries: The Quest to Save a Rain Forest Species - Sandra Markle
2020 The Wonders of Nature - Ben Haore
2018 ABC's from Space - Adam Voiland QB631.4 .V64 2017
2018 Botanicum - K.J. Willis QK49.W553 2017
2018 Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant - Songju Ma Daemicke E DAE
2018 Caroline's Comets - Emily Arnold McCully QB36.H5978.M33 2017
2018 Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done - Andrea Gonzales QA76.6 .G643 2018
2018 The Girl who Thought in Pictures - Julia Finley Mosca SF33.G67 M67 2017
2018 Feathers and Hair : What Animals Wear - Jennifer Ward QL942 .W37 2017
2018 It's a Fungus Among Us - Carla Billups QK603.5 .B55 2017
2018 Helloflo: The Guide, Period - Naama Bloom QP84.4 .B56 2017
2018 Mosquitoes Don't Bite Me - Pendred Noyce FIC NOY
2018 The Secret Project - Jonah Winter QC773.3.U5 W55 2017
2018 Over and Under the Pond - Kate Messner QH541.5.P63 M47 2017
2018 The Street Beneath my Feet - Charlotte Guillain QE511.G85 2017
2018 Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World - Laurie Lawlor Q141 .L4235 2017
2018 When the Sun goes Dark - Andrew Fraknoi QB541.5 .F73 2017
2018 Margaret and the Moon - Dean Robbins QA76.H36 R63 2017
2017 Bubonic Panic - Gail Jarrow A644.P7 J37 2016
2017 Charles Darwin's Around the World Adventure - Jennifer Thermes QH31.D2 T424 2016
2017 The Great White Shark Scientist - Sy Montgomery QH91.3 .S575 2016
2017 Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know - Alexandra Horowitz SF433 .H73 2016
2017 If you are a kaka you eat doo doo - Sara Martel QL768 .M3735 2016
2017 Whoosh! : Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions - Chris Barton T40.J585 B37 2016
2017 Story of Seeds: From Medel's Garden to your Plate, and how there's more of less to eat Around the World - Nancy Fusco Castaldo SB117.2 .C37 2016
2017 Radioactive! : How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World - Winifred Conkling QC774.J65 C66 2017
2016 The Fantastic Ferris Wheel - Betsy Harvey Kraft TA140.F455 K73 2015