4th Grade

Maria Merian's artwork and close study of insects become a vivid portrait of careful looking and scientific artistry.

Patricia Bath's work in medicine and innovation becomes a child-friendly biography about problem-solving and vision care.

Maria Merian's fascination with insects and metamorphosis becomes a vivid story about observation, art, and scientific wonder.

Mae Jemison's love of science, dance, and possibility becomes a rhyming biography full of momentum and encouragement.

Luis Agassiz Fuertes and scientists of the deep help reveal a giant squid in a story that combines art, curiosity, and ocean research.

Katherine Johnson's life and mathematical brilliance become a lively story about persistence, numbers, and spaceflight.

Eugenie Clark's fascination with sharks becomes a picture-book invitation to scientific curiosity and marine research.

Based on a true story, a girl in Cuba persists in pursuing drumming despite rules that say girls should stay silent.

This biography imagines the childhood reading life that helped shape writer and scholar Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

A boy and his father travel from California to the border to visit the mother who has been deported to Mexico.