SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS
Barron's
Biographies / Other Publishers
Barron's
Biographies
The Explosion Zone Series by Barron's Educational. This
series examines various inventions, the science that makes them work, and the
inventors who brought them into being. Children will love the humorous
color illustrations. Here are some titles:
 Bell and the Science of the
Telephone by Ian Graham. Illustrated by David Antram. Barron's 2006.
Hands-on activities for elementary age readers are included. This book
shows how to make a simple telephone with cans and string, how sound can be sent
by light signals in fiber optics cables, why bullhorns and megaphones can make
sound travel further, and how cell phones transmit by radio waves. For upper
elementary students. 32 pages. BTH-3104. $6.29-D
Curie
and the Science of Radioactivity by Ian Graham. Illustrated by David
Antram. Barron's 2006. This series examines various inventions, the science that
makes them work, and the inventors who brought them into being. Children will
love the humorous color illustrations. This book shows how Madame Curie studied
radium and made many fascinating discoveries. There is a glossary and index at
the end. For upper elementary students. 32 pages. BTH-3105. $6.29-D
Science Stories Series from Barrons: Available titles:
 Marie
Curie's Search for Radium by Beverly Birch. Illustrated by
Christian Birmingham, Barron's, 1996. This is the true story of Madame Curie --
her curiosity, her intelligence, and the way the world was changed by her
discoveries. Her persistence and determination proved the existence of radium
and laid the groundwork for he nuclear age in which we now live. For middle
elementary grades. Unpaginated. Full page color illustrations enhance the text.
BTH-3121. $5.36-D
Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes by Beverly Birch. Illustrated by
Christian Birmingham, Barron's, 1996. This is the true story of a man who saved
millions of lives with his new method for preventing diseases that had killed
people for centuries. His imagination, patience, and clear thinking changed the
quality of life in our world forever. For middle elementary grades. Unpaginated.
Full page color illustrations enhance the text. BTH-3122. $5.36-D
Other
Publishers
Short Plays for Building Fluency: Famous Americans by multiple
authors. Scholastic, 2008. Formerly published as Famous Americans, 22 Short
Plays for the Classroom. Help build students' reading fluency and build
awareness of important people in U.S. history through fact-based, original plays
about 22 famous Americans. These read-aloud biographical plays provide kids with
the repeated practice they need to read with speed, automaticity, and
expression-the key elements of fluency. Background information, discussion
questions, extension activities, and literature links round out this versatile
resource. Subjects of plays include Christopher Columbus, Ben Franklin, George
Washington, Phillis Wheatley, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, Abraham Lincoln,
Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, John Muir, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham
Bell, George Washington Carver, Susan Picotte, Nellie Bly, The Wright Brothers,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Langston Hughes, Rosa Parks and Martin
Luther King, Jr, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, and Neil Armstrong. For grades
4-8. BTH-4661. $17.99-D
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A Story About George Eastman by Barbara Mitchell. Illustrated by Jan
Hosking Smith. Lerner, 1986. In this age of digital photography, few children
remember cameras with film. When George Eastman first made photography his hobby
in the 1800s, he had to lug around 50 pounds of camera equipment, including
fragile glass plates which would become pictures. Tired of this inconvenience,
he developed a camera simple enough for anyone to use -- the Kodak, which
forever revolutionized photography. For grade 3-6. 56 pages. BTH-4311. $6.95*
Out of print. One left.
Fine Print: A Story About Johann
Gutenberg
by Joann Johansen Burch. Illustrated by Kent Aldrich. Lerner,
1991. As a child who loved to read growing up in the early 1400s when books were
scarce because they had to be copied letter by letter, Young Gutenberg dreamed
of finding a better and faster way to make books. This is the story of the man
who invented moveable type and the printing press -- inventions which made his
dream come true and helped make books widely available to people. 64 pages. For
grades 2-4. BTH-4310. $5.95* Out of print. Supplies limited to stock on hand.
A Pocket Full of Goobers: A Story About George Washington Carver by
Barbara Mitchell: A Creative Minds Biography, Lerner Publications, 1986. George
Washington Carver knew almost all there was to know about plants, but when the
bool weevil attacked the cotton crops in the South in the early 1900's, not even
he could save them. Instead he turned his attention to the peanut, and found
hundreds of ways to use it. He eventually turned it into a very profitable crop
for the South. 64 pages. For ages 9-13. BTH-5411. $6.26-D
 What Are You Figuring Now? A
Story About Benjamin Banneker
by Jeri Ferris. Lerner, 1988. Illustrated
by Amy Johnson. Benjamin Banneker was a free black man, self-educated, a farmer,
astronomer, and a man appointed by George Washington to help survey the city of
Washington, D.C. He was also the first black man to publish an almanac. And
that's only part of the story of his many accomplishments. For grades 2-4. 64
pages. BTH-2900. Slight shelf wear. $4.95* Out of print. Supplies limited to
stock on hand.
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