The Best STEM Books To Add To Your Home Library

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In the last year, I’ve watched my son’s love for reading flourish, along with a significant advancement in his reading comprehension and fluency.  Both of my kids excitedly anticipate our weekly visits to our local library to check out new and familiar books, and this has helped fuel their love for reading.  Series books are their favorites, but I’ve noticed my son in particular select books that correspond to the subjects he is learning in school, including science and American History.

Of late, there has been a heavy emphasis on the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math. The belief is that introduction of these disciplines early on can fuel a student’s long-term educational success.

One way my kids are learning STEM is through books. I’m a huge proponent of allowing kids to choose the books they want to read, particularly in the summer, but I’ve definitely been known to suggest books that I feel are as engaging as they are academic. In honor of the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge, here are the BEST STEM books to add to your home library:

1. Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World

2. If…A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers

3. Eight Dolphins of Katrina: A True Tale of Survival

4. Physics: Why Matter Matters!

5. Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World

6. Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes

7. The Animal Book

8. The Emperor’s Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China

9. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

10. Batman Science: The Real-World Science Behind Batman’s Gear

11. Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space

All summer long, we’ve been logging our reading minutes as part of the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge and despite the fact that we’re about 1 month away from the start of the new school year, it’s not too late to join. When you visit Scholastic.com/Summer your child can track his/her daily reading minutes along with entering to win a variety of prizes. Parent and child resources include daily reading tips, free booklists, summer reading activities, free printables and more. You can learn more about the Energizer® Instant Win Game by visiting Energizer® Bunny on Facebook.

Scholastic is also striving to break the world record for summer reading.  Every Monday, Scholastic will announce a #MondayMinutesGoal for kids to read together throughout the week. I encourage you to follow @Scholastic on Twitter using the hashtags #MondayMinutesGoal and #SummerReading to share your child’s reading minutes.

This year’s Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge theme is “Power Up & Read,” powered by ENERGIZER®.  To learn more about the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge or to attain access to Scholastic Resources to keep your child reading all summer long, visit Scholastic.com.

Win It! One of you will win a Scholastic Innovation Book Packet which will include the following:

• The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Extreme Science Careers
• Extreme Experiments
• Plus Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge materials including reading logs, pledges, bookmarks, and more!

Simply complete the Rafflecopter form and leave a comment with your favorite children’s STEM book. Comments will close on August 14, 2015 at 11:59 PM PST.

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Caryn Bailey

Caryn is a NICU nurse by day, blogger by night and mom 24/7. She savors the warm Southern California sun and loves to travel, shopping, baking, reading and frequenting her local tea room. Caryn created the column Lavishly Green for Peekaboo Picks Magazine to share her best tips for going green in style, she is the Former editor for Family Review Network, former OC Family Magazine online contributor, former Orange County Moms Blog contributor, former Evenflo Savvy Parent contributor, former member of the Totsy Advisory Board and former freelance writer for CBS Los Angeles.

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