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Santa Monica Picks: Fabulous Facts & True Tales (Award-Winning Nonfiction for Grades 3-6)

Santa Monica Public Library

32 items

  • A Drop of Water

    a Book of Science and Wonder

    Wick, Walter
    BookNew York : Scholastic, c1997. — X546.22 WICK
  • Island

    a Story of the Galápagos

    Chin, Jason, 1978-
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2012. — X591.98 CHIN
  • Stinky Science

    Why the Smelliest Smells Smell So Smelly

    Kay, Edward,
    BookToronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2019] — X612.86 KAY
  • The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

    An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer

    Kerley, Barbara
    BookNew York : Scholastic, 2001. — X688.1 HAWKINS
  • Case Closed?

    Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

    Hughes, Susan, 1960-
    BookToronto : Kids Can Press, c2010. — X930.1 HUGHES
  • The Animal Book

    a Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest--and Most Surprising--animals on Earth

    Jenkins, Steve, 1952-2021
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013] — X590 JENKINS
  • Just the Right Size

    Why Big Animals Are Big and Little Animals Are Little

    Davies, Nicola, 1958-
    BookSomerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009. — X591.4 DAVIES
  • BookPlain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2007. — X591.65 SINGER
  • Neighborhood Sharks

    Hunting With the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

    Roy, Katherine.,
    BookNew York : David Macaulay Studio, Roaring Brook Press, [2014] — X597.3 ROY
  • Also in audiobook and video formats
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017. — X557.91 CHIN
  • Citizen Scientists

    Be a Part of Scientific Discovery From Your Own Backyard

    Burns, Loree Griffin
    BookNew York : Henry Holt, 2012. — X591.5 BURNS
  • Look Up!

    Bird-watching in Your Own Backyard

    Cate, Annette
    BookSomerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013. — X598 CATE
  • It's Our Garden

    From Seeds to Harvest in a School Garden

    Ancona, George
    BookSomerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013. — X635 ANCONA
  • The Hive Detectives

    Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe

    Burns, Loree Griffin
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010. — X638.1 BURNS
  • BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks eXplore ; 2019. — X158.1 SYED
  • All That Trash

    the Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem With Stuff

    McCarthy, Meghan,
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] — X363.728 MCCARTHY
  • Survivors

    Extraordinary Tales From the Wild and Beyond

    Long, David, 1961-
    BookLondon : Faber & Faber, 2017. — X613.69 LONG