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A blue hardcover book with a yellow spine with different illustrations of building code including illustrations of a construction vehicle, artist, and music.

Coding for Beginners Using Scratch

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
A green front cover with blue text and images.

Scientist Academy

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
4 4" x 4" board books, Earth and Life, Chemists, Physicists, and Astronomers with slipcase. Features an illustration of Carolyn Porco and Albert Einstein.

Little Scientists Board Book Set by Emily Kleinman, Illustrated by Lydia Ortiz

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
The hardback book is dark gray with illustrations of different women of science in bright orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow, and teal.

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
7.1" x 7.1" board book. Illustrated baby with hands raised above the head. A coding train moves between the hands.

Baby Loves Coding! By Ruth Spiro

$ 8.99
$ 8.99
This is a hardcover book with color-coded element characters corresponding to each element, such as nitrogen; a green element is used in plant fertilizers.

Lift-the-flap Periodic Table by Alice James and Shaw Nielson

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
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8" x 8" board book illustrated book cover of the ABCs of Space Three circles with Asteroid, Binary Star, and Comet. Blue spine with science tools in white .

ABCs of Space by Chris Ferrie and Julia Kregenow

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry is a paperback book. It is 9.1 x 6.1  inches in dimension. The cover is white, with drawings of different space-related planets, satellites, asteroids, and black holes appear on the cover in purple, yellow, red, orange, and blue-green.   

Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Gregory Mone

$ 11.95
$ 11.95
A black book with an illustration of Stephan Hawking on the cover.

Little People, Big Dreams Stephen Hawking by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
It is a hardcover with the dimensions 12.8"x 10.5" x 0.5". The cover is black with white skeletons of different animals. A whale, snake, giraffe, bat, moose, frog, bird, lizard, and prehistoric elephant.

Book of Bones: 10 Record-Breaking Animals by Gabrielle Balkan

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Dark blue cover with an illustration of Marie Curie on the front holding a chemistry flask.

Little People, Big Dreams Marie Curie by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
A crazy green and yellow machine with levers, smoke, wind turbines, umbrellas, tubes, etc., with a little figure in the front running the engine; My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook is written in the marquee.

My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
"The Disappearing Spoon" is a paperback book with a black cover; there are several beakers, test tubes, and science flasks filled with yellow liquid and one blue spoon connected by a network of clear tubes.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements (Youth Edition) by Sam Kean

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
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The large-format hardcover book has a graph background with a young girl in a similar headscarf as Rosie the Riveter, a man flying in parachute pants, and tools and building materials underneath them.

Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
Orange cover with an illustration of Zaha Hadid on the front holding one of her architectural designs.

Little People, Big Dreams Zaha Hadid by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
A yellow hardcover book with an illustration of a young girl standing, hands are stretched out toward her to touch her hair, all around the book's edges.

Don't Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
A hardcover book with a pinky beige cover illustrates a young boy wrapped in a yellow blanket from the waist down and fern fawns in his hair.

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
"Ecosystems" is a comic book-style paperback; there is an illustration of the Max Axiom out in nature with different wildlife all around.

Exploring Ecosystems with Max Axiom by Agnieszka Jòzefina Biskup

$ 7.95
$ 7.95
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A white book with a black and white lenticular image of a horse that moves with the book. The book title Gallop! and the author's name are in different colored letters at the top.

Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Butler Seder

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
"What Color is My World" has a red cover with radiating lines from t a glowing light bulb. I'm in the middle.

What Color is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabber, Raymond Obstfeld, Illustrated by Ben Boos and A.G. Ford

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
A hardcover book that is 9.5 x 0.5 x 11.2 inches. The book's cover is an illustration of a girl sitting on a rope attached to the ceiling with a pulley fixing an "A" in the tile. A boy is holding the rope. Be a Maker title comprises design elements, such as wood, graph paper, blocks..

Be a Maker by Kathy Howes, Illustrated by Elizabet Vuković

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
An 8" x 8" board book. The cover illustrates four blue and yellow birds happily chirping and bouncing in a white tree against an orange background. The title and text are in white.

Balance the Birds by Susie Ghahremani

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
It is a paperback book that is 9" x 6". The cover is an illustrated picture of Katherine Johnson, Bessie Coleman, and Mae Jemison. their portraits are in the clouds, and a space shuttle is leaving from the corner.

Black Women in Science by Kimberly Brown Pellum, PhD

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
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A young Katherine Johnson sits on a chair in front of a moon image decorated with different mathematical formulas. The paperback book is blue, with yellow text, and is 11.3" x 9.4".

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker, Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk

$ 18.99
$ 18.99