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Book List

We’ve carefully curated book lists to go with each lesson.


Be Curious Books

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Be Curious, Be Green

A Boy and a Jaguar

By Alan RabinowitzHoughton Mifflin Harcourt

The renowned cat conservationist reflects on his early childhood struggles with a speech disorder.

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Be Curious

All About Weather

By Huda HarajliRockridge Press

Kids will learn all about the four seasons, as well as how clouds form, why it rains, what causes a rainbow, and so much more.

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Be Curious

Building Books 

By Megan Wagner LloydKnopf Books for Young Readers

Katie loves building with blocks. She’s bored by books. Her brother Owen likes to lose himself in a story. A school librarian convinces them to see the possibilities in the other’s hobby.

Be Curious

Cece Loves Science

By Kimberly DertingGreenwillow Books

Luna, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend Isaac conduct experiments to see whether Luna’s dog Einstein will eat his vegetables.

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Be Curious

Changes, Changes

By Pat HutchinsSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

The little wooden couple are happy in their building-block house—until it catches fire. The solution? They transform the house into a fire engine!

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Be Curious

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 

By Helaine BeckerHenry Holt and Co.

The story of a groundbreaking American woman who not only calculated the course of moon landings but, in turn, saved lives and made enormous contributions to history.

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Be Curious

Demolition

By Sally SuttonCandlewick Press

Big machines and their drivers work together to tear down a building.

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Be Creative, Be Curious

Duck! Rabbit!

By Amy Krouse RosenthalChronicle Books

Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck.

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