Science & Technology

In 1848 Vermont, railroad foreman Phineas Gage sat above a hole, preparing to blast throu...

Discover the man behind the chocolate bar! Milton Hershey’s life was filled with in...

Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fi...

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselli...

Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really...

Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work—and maybe even dull. B...

The name of Florence Nightingale is a household word, but the exact nature and scope of h...

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 mill...

From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes the first bo...

As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they...

Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washingtoni Carver to succeed. Slaves were...

How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were...

Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they ...

Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a n...

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the t...

A cool idea with a big splash You know the Super Soaker. It's one of top twenty toys of a...

Neil Armstrong's journey to the moon is the focus of the fifteenth entry in the New ...

A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling ...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male...

It's one thing for scientists to use animals for their experiments. But it's another thin...

Jacqueline Briggs Martin's Snowflake Bentley won a Caldecott Medal, a Parents' Choice Awa...

Illness, disease and injury prompted the development of medicine from the earliest days o...

Isaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries...

Soar to the stars with Dr. Mae Jemison in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography...

A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK • Learn about the importance of vaccines and ...

Albert Einstein: his name has become a synonym for genius. His wild case of bedhead and p...

All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his place among the Giants o...

Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America’s Founding Fathers, ...

Krull presents another top-notch scientific biography in the outstanding Giants of Scienc...

An engaging picture book biography based on the incredible true story of a Jewish refugee...

2022 Green Earth Book Award Winner NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book John Burroughs Association Riv...

Budding botanists, growing geologists, and early explorers will dive into this picture bo...

Discover new realms of outer space in this biography of scientist Gabriela Gonzalez, ...

Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corpora...

The world-renowned architect I. M. Pei is the twenty-fourth hero in the New York Times be...

A hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic "failures": the Wright brothers...

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded for conducting “u...

Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientifi...

Young Neil deGrasse Tyson was starstruck when he first visited the sky theater at the Hay...

Kathleen Krull’s biographies for young readers have received accolades from publica...

This book explores the world of Sigmund Freud, who, making it into the author's highly po...

What's more popular than Tumblr? This microblogging site has taken the Web by storm since...

On October 5, 2011, the news of the death of technology innovator Steve Jobs rocked the w...

Have you ever watched a home video that went viral on the Internet? Then you've probably ...

Have you ever stared into the night sky, full of stars and planets? As a kid, Neil deGras...

Do you play computer games? If you do, you've probably played Minecraft. When Minecraft c...

Do you like to gaze at the stars? So did the young Stephen Hawking. Eventually, he turned...

Do you enjoy visiting animals at the zoo or playing with pets? As a child, Jane Goodall l...

Have you ever used your imagination to solve a problem? When Albert Einstein was young, h...