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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-10 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Middle Ages
Date
1500s
Topic
Astronomy | Galileo | Religion | Scientists
Geographic Region
Europe | Italy
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

Galileo and the Magic Numbers

Author: Rosen, Sidney

A biography of the 16th-century mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who dared to question the scientific theories set up by Aristotle and the Church.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s | 1900s
Topic
Albert Einstein | Biography | Scientists
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein (Trailblazer Biographies

Author: McPherson, Stephanie SammartinoPart of a Series: 24/7 Goes to War: On the Battlefield | Trailblazer Biographies

Mc Pherson’s well written biography of Einstein is sure to please young readers in their quest for knowledge. Its photographs are excellent in content and placement, and the text is superb.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-7 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s | 1900s
Topic
Albert Einstein | Science | Scientists
Geographic Region
Europe | Germany
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity

Author: Cwiklik, Robert

Einstein’s astonishing theory of relativity transformed every aspect of physics-from the study of atoms to the study of stars. Relativity is described here in simple, accurate language that young readers can comprehend.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 5-9 Grades

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s | 1900s
Topic
African-American | George Washington Carver | Horticulture | Science | Scientists | Slavery
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

George Washington Carver (Heroes of the Faith)

Author: Wellman, SamPart of a Series: Heros of the Faith

Amidst the millions of committed Christians in each generation, a handful rise to special prominence. Learn more about their exciting and inspiring lives in Barbour’s “Heroes of the Faith” series.George Washington Carver spent years researching God’s creation and how mankind could make the best use of common products.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Religion | Science

Historical Time Period
Age of Exploration/Discovery | Early Modern
Date
1600s
Topic
Biography | Galileo | Science | Scientists
Geographic Region
Europe | Italy
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for History | Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

Author: Sobel, Dava

Inspired by long fascination with Galileo and the surviving letters of his daughter, a cloistered nun, Sobel has written a biography of the one Einstein called “the father of modern physics–indeed of modern science altogether.” Galileo’s Daughter presents a portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by Galileo as “a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me.”
Son of a musician, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried at first to enter a monastery before engaging the skills that made him the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. Most sensationally, his telescopes allowed him to reveal a new reality in the heavens and to reinforce the argument that the Earth moves round the Sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy and forced to spend his last years under house arrest.
Of Galileo’s three illegitimate children, the eldest best mirrored his own brilliance, industry, and sensibility, and by virtue of such qualities became his confidante. Born Virginia in 1600, she was 13 when Galileo placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her loving support, which Galileo repaid in kind, proved to be her father’s greatest source of strength through his most productive and tumultuous years. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from their original Italian and woven into the narrative, graces her father’s life now as it did then.
Galileo’s Daughter dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose 17th-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo’s grand public life and Maria Celeste’s sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity’s perception of its place in the cosmos was about to be overturned. In that same time, while the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and the Thirty Years’ War tipped fortunes across Europe, one man sought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through a telescope.
With all the drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Dava Sobel’s previous book Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is an unforgettable story.

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Lexile/Reading Level
940L Recommended for 1-6 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1970s
Topic
Biography | Creation | Scientists | Stephen Hawking | Universe
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist Who Gets a Big Bang Out of the Universe (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Scientists & Inventors)

Author: Venezia, MikePart of a Series: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors

Where did the universe begin? Are black holes real? You’ll get a big bang out of superstar cosmologist Stephen Hawking! His mind-boggling theories about the origins of our universe are out of this world!

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Lexile/Reading Level
950L Recommended for 1-6 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1960s
Topic
Biography | Luis Alvarez | Nobel Prize | Scientists
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Luis Alvarez: Wild Idea Man (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Scientists & Inventors)

Author: Venezia, MikePart of a Series: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors

These books are without a doubt the definitive and most entertaining biographies of scientists for young readers. Author and artist Mike Venezia provides hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement his easy-to-read text and full-color reproductions of the scientists’ sketches and notebooks.

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Lexile/Reading Level
960L Recommended for 1-6 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1960s
Topic
Animals | Chimpanzees | Jane Goodall
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book

Jane Goodall: Researcher Who Champions Chimps (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Scientists & Inventors)

Author: Venezia, MikePart of a Series: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors

These books are without a doubt the definitive and most entertaining biographies of scientists for young readers. Author and artist Mike Venezia provides hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement his easy-to-read text and full-color reproductions of the scientists’ sketches and notebooks.

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Lexile/Reading Level
920L

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1950s
Topic
Archaeology | Mary Leakey | Scientists
Geographic Region
Africa | England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book

Mary Leakey: Archaeologist Who Really Dug Her Work (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Scientists & Inventors)

Author: Venezia, MikePart of a Series: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors

Without the backbreaking work of Mary Leakey and her family, the story of human evolution would still be a mystery. Join her on Africa’s Serengeti, and see how her prehistoric discoveries shaped our understanding of humankind.

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Lexile/Reading Level
GN760L

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction | Science

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1950s
Topic
Jonas Salk | Polio | Scientists | Vacines
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Audiobook | Book

Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine (Graphic Library: Inventions and Discovery)

Author: Krohn, Katherine E.Part of a Series: Inventions and Discovery

Tells the story of Jonas Salk’s involvement in the development of a polio vaccine. Written in graphic-novel format.

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