Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


Clink
By: Kelly DiPucchio
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Clink is a robot that used to be state of the art; now he's outdated and missing parts. Nobody...

From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
By: James Rumford
Age Level: 3-6 years old

If I Built a Car
By: Chris Van Dusen
Age Level: 3-6 years old

If I Built a House
By: Chris Van Dusen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Imaginative Jack is ready to build the house of his dreams, complete with a racetrack, flying...

Polo: The Runaway Book
By: Regis Faller
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The chase is on when Polo's book is stolen by a small alien. Polo, an engaging hound, pulls...

The Most Magnificent Thing
By: Ashley Spires
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A girl decides to make something magnificent with the help of her assistant — her dog, but they...

What Do You Do With an Idea?
By: Kobi Yamada
Age Level: 3-6 years old
This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world. As...

Young Frank, Architect
By: Frank Viva
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Young Frank is an architect. He lives with his grandfather, Old Frank, who is also an architect...
Age Level: 6-9 years old


Clever-Lazy
By: Joan Bodger
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World
By: Elizabeth Rusch
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Move over Tom Edison! This intriguing look at Tesla’s importance in early use of electricity is...

Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed their World
By: Allan Drummond
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
It's windy on the Danish island of Samsø. Meet the environmentally friendly people who now...

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly, Winifred Conklin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The true story of four African American women whose talent and tenacity led to careers at NASA...

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
By: Rosalyn Schanzer
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Hurricane
By: David Wiesner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
As the sky grays and the leaves swirl by in a "green blizzard," two young boys and...

I, Galileo
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The voice of an old, blind Galileo Galilei is used to look back on a life that started in Pisa...

Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing Architects
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Iggy Peck, Architect
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Imaginative Inventions
By: Charise Mericle Harper
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A lively, brief, rhyming look at various inventions and the people who created them weaves...

Lewis Latimer: The Man Behind a Better Light Bulb
By: Nancy Dickmann
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Lewis Latimer's invention of the carbon filament made light bulbs more affordable and longer...

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
By: Emily Arnold McCully
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Marveltown
By: Bruce McCall
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A romp through the possibilities of the unbound imagination. Marveltown is a place where flights...

Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
By: Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction

Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
By: Gene Baretta
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Even though Leonardo da Vinci lived a long time ago (born in 15th century Florence), his ideas...

Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
By: Gene Barretta
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction

On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
By: Jennifer Berne
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Papa's Mechanical Fish
By: Candace Fleming
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A fictional account based on events in the life of eccentric inventor Lodner Phillips as told...

Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum
By: Meghan McCarthy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Though it's unlikely that anyone has ever heard of Walter Diemer, chances are they've...

Pop-Up House of Inventions: Hundreds of Fabulous Facts About Your Home
By: Robert Crowther
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Each room of every house holds items, objects, and other surprises that were invented at one...

Regards to the Man in the Moon
By: Ezra Jack Keats
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold Engineers
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rosie Revere, Engineer
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Snowflake Bentley
By: Jacqueline Martin Briggs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Strong lines and narrative combine in this picture book biography of the Vermonter who figured...

So You Want to Be an Inventor?
By: Judith St. George
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ever wonder who invented the first dishwasher? How about Ben Franklin's inventions? Need...

Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers
By: Mike Venezia
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sweet Dreams, Sarah
By: Vivian Kirkfield
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Originally enslaved, Sarah E. Goode moved to Chicago after the abolition of slavery and started...

The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs
By: Fiona Robinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Born in England in the early 19th century, Anna was encouraged by her father to observe, study,...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops...

The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Two machines captivated young Philo Farnsworth: a telephone and a phonograph. Both had cranks...

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
By: Deborah Heiligman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Paul Erdos grew up in Hungary and was always an unusual child. He enjoyed numbers, was inept at...

The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
By: Natashcha Biebow
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
You may not have heard of Edwin Binney but chances are you’ve used his invention: Crayola...

The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont
By: Victoria Griffith
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
By: Julia Finley Mosca
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an...

The Hole Story of the Doughnut
By: Pat Miller
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A seafaring cook named Hanson Crockett Gregory is credited with inventing the sweet fried treats...

The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan
By: Joan DiCicco
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Using his ingenuity and tenacity, Garrett overcame racial barriers and forged a career as a...

Ticktock Banneker's Clock
By: Shana Keller
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The story of 18th century African American scientist Benjamin Banneker and his three-year...

Weird & Wacky Inventions
By: Jim Murphy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Images of unusual inventions are presented with possible uses, explained when the page is turned...

Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
By: Chris Barton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
As a kid, Lonnie fiddled around with toy rockets and more. But all of his tinkering led to a...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle
By: Deborah Lee Rose
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
The true story of Beauty, the wild bald eagle that made world news when she was illegally shot,...

Black Pioneers of Science and Invention
By: Louis Haber
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction

Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
By: Traci Sorell
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's...

Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World
By: David Macaulay
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
This fascinating story of the development of steam engines is told against the backdrop of David...

Curious Jane: Science + Design + Engineering for Inquisitive Girls
By: Sterling Children's
Age Level: 9-12 years old
“Curious Jane” activities started as a summer project to keep the author’s girls engaged. It has...

Generation Fix: Young Ideas for a Better World
By: Elizabeth Rusch
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Young people see a need and work to better their world in this upbeat chronicle of youthful...

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
By: Catherine Thimmesh
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Hooray For Inventors!
By: Marcia Williams
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Mistakes that Worked
By: Charlotte Jones
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Robot: DK Eyewitness Books
By: Roger Bridgman
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Robotics: Discover the Science and Technology of the Future
By: Kathy Ceceri
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Tesla’s Attic
By: Neal Shusterman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
The first in the Accelerati Trilogy, 14-year old Nick, his younger brother and his father have...

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By: Brian Selznick
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Image and text combine in a unique presentation to tell the story of an orphan boy who lives...

The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle
By: Don L. Wulffson
Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Kids' Invention Book
By: Arlene Erlbach
Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Next Wave: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans
By: Elizabeth Rusch
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Journey to the wave-battered coast of the Pacific Northwest to meet some of the engineers and...

Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions
By: Don Wulffson
Age Level: 9-12 years old

What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors
By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Basketball legend Abdul-Jabbar champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in...