Best STEM Books, 2017-2024
Resources for the titles recognized by this list since its inception in 2017 -- honoring the best children’s books with STEM content
Sponsored by Children’s Book Council (CBC)
![Best STEM Books, 2017-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/78.jpg)
- 2,461 Resources including
- 190 Videos
- 85 Book Readings
- 215 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 195 book results
![All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1536209457.jpg)
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
(Selection, 2021)
51 Resources18 Awards
![Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74682_hi.jpg)
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
by Traci Sorell and Natasha Donovan
(Selection, 2022)
41 Resources8 Awards
![Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1580892973.jpg)
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton and Don Tate
(Selection, 2017)
38 Resources11 Awards
![Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1629799386.jpg)
Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
by Kirsten W. Larson and Tracy Subisak
(Selection, 2021)
32 Resources2 Awards
![Great Stink, The: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1534449299.jpg)
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
by Colleen Paeff and Nancy Carpenter
(Selection, 2022)
32 Resources8 Awards
![Full of Beans](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0553510363.jpg)
![Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1492642045.jpg)
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
by Jess Keating and Marta Álvarez Miguéns
(Selection, 2018)
29 Resources6 Awards
![Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0316393827.jpg)
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
by Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy
(Selection, 2019)
28 Resources10 Awards
![Doll-E 1.0](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0316510319.jpg)
![Someone Builds the Dream](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1984814338.jpg)
![Most Magnificent Thing, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1554537045.jpg)
![Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0316278203.jpg)
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara McClintock
(Selection, 2019)
26 Resources11 Awards
![Smelly Kelly and His Super Senses: How James Kelly's Nose Saved the New York City Subway](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1684373999.jpg)
Smelly Kelly and His Super Senses: How James Kelly's Nose Saved the New York City Subway
by Beth Anderson and Jenn Harney
(Selection, 2021)
25 Resources2 Awards
![Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1939547202.jpg)
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
by Laurie Wallmark and April Chu
(Selection, 2017)
24 Resources7 Awards
![House That Lou Built, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1524717940.jpg)
![Brilliant Deep, The: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1452133506.jpg)
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
(Selection, 2019)
23 Resources8 Awards
![Crayon Man, The: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/132886684X.jpg)
The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
by Natascha Biebow and Steven Salerno
(Selection, 2020)
22 Resources5 Awards
![Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0593306716.jpg)
Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession
by Kate Hannigan and Zachariah O'Hora
(Selection, 2023)
22 Resources1 Awards
![Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1250112494.jpg)
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines
by Jeanne Walker Harvey and Dow Phumiruk
(Selection, 2018)
21 Resources4 Awards
![Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1419739638.jpg)
Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars
by Laurie Wallmark and Brooke Smart
(Selection, 2022)
21 Resources3 Awards
![American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/168437815X.jpg)
American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South
by Gail Jarrow
(Selection, 2023)
21 Resources7 Awards
![Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0449813371.jpg)
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
by Jen Bryant and Boris Kulikov
(Selection, 2017)
20 Resources4 Awards
![Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481465651.jpg)
![Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1426328672.jpg)
Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact
(Selection, 2019)
20 Resources2 Awards
![Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0062907727.jpg)
Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team
by Susan Hood, Dow Phumiruk, and Pathana Sornhiran
(Selection, 2020)
20 Resources3 Awards
![Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0399557253.jpg)
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles
by Patricia Valdez and Felicita Sala
(Selection, 2019)
19 Resources4 Awards
![Save the Crash-Test Dummies](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1682630226.jpg)
Save the Crash-Test Dummies
by Jennifer Swanson and TeMika Grooms
(Selection, 2020)
19 Resources2 Awards
![Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1984896040.jpg)
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
by Dan Nott
(Selection, 2024)
19 Resources10 Awards
![Inventor's Secret, The: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1580896677.jpg)
The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford
by Suzanne Slade and Jennifer Black Reinhardt
(Selection, 2017)
18 Resources3 Awards
![Secret Subway, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0375870717.jpg)
![Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1368011055.jpg)
Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future
by Tami Lewis Brown, Debbie Loren Dunn, and Chelsea Beck
(Selection, 2020)
18 Resources6 Awards
![Computer Called Katherine, A: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0316435171.jpg)
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
by Suzanne Slade and Veronica Miller Jamison
(Selection, 2020)
18 Resources3 Awards
![Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1684372410.jpg)
Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space
by Suzanne Slade and Sally Wern Comport
(Selection, 2023)
18 Resources5 Awards
![Mystery of the Monarchs, The: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch Migration](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1984829564.jpg)
The Mystery of the Monarchs: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch Migration
by Barb Rosenstock and Erika Meza
(Selection, 2023)
18 Resources5 Awards
![Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1620914468.jpg)
Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
by Barb Rosenstock and S.D. Schindler
(Selection, 2017)
17 Resources2 Awards
![Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1481416006.jpg)
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
by Robert Burleigh and Raúl Colón
(Selection, 2017)
17 Resources7 Awards
![Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1620916509.jpg)
Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
by Heather Lang and Raúl Colón
(Selection, 2017)
17 Resources4 Awards
![Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1481452495.jpg)
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
by Diane Stanley and Jessie Hartland
(Selection, 2017)
17 Resources9 Awards
![Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1419707345.jpg)
Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM
by Tonya Bolden
(Selection, 2021)
17 Resources3 Awards
![Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland Into a Home](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1629794406.jpg)
Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland Into a Home
by Barb Rosenstock and Christopher Silas Neal
(Selection, 2020)
17 Resources2 Awards
![Numbers in Motion: Sophie Kowalevski, Queen of Mathematics](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1939547636.jpg)
Numbers in Motion: Sophie Kowalevski, Queen of Mathematics
by Laurie Wallmark and Yevgenia Nayberg
(Selection, 2021)
17 Resources2 Awards
![Leaf Detective, The: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1684371775.jpg)
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest
by Heather Lang and Jana Christy
(Selection, 2022)
17 Resources4 Awards
![Action!: How Movies Began](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1534452303.jpg)
![Concrete: From the Ground Up](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1536212504.jpg)
Concrete: From the Ground Up
by Larissa Theule and Steve Light
(Selection, 2023)
17 Resources4 Awards
![Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1665919086.jpg)
Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever
by Don Tate and Cherise Harris
(Selection, 2024)
17 Resources5 Awards
![John Deere, That's Who!](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1627791299.jpg)
John Deere, That's Who!
by Tracy Nelson Maurer and Tim Zeltner
(Selection, 2018)
16 Resources3 Awards