[aisle] MS: Life Science Lit

Christie C christiechandlerstahl at gmail.com
Wed Aug 7 18:40:51 CDT 2019


“What elephants Know,” and “A Circle of Elephants” by Eric Dinerstein are
wonderful MG novels about elephant life in Nepal. Great life science! “The
Thing About Jellyfish” by Ali Benjamin is another great one.

Christie Chandler-Stahl
Resource Center Director
Greeley School

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 4:03 PM Kathleen Kerner via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I suggest you check out the STEM Read website <https://stemread.com/>
> (affiliated with NIU)...it's a really great resource!
> Here are the titles they have developed programming for in the past for
> middle schools.
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> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:09 PM Pantle, Holly via AISLE <
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>> Hello Everyone!
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>> I have a science teacher that wants to tie in more non-fiction and
>> fiction to her classroom this year. We are finding a lot of Physical
>> Science but we are struggling to find anything Life Science related. I
>> suggested *Code Orange* and *Fever 1793* as they both relate to
>> diseases.  I also thought of anything by Carl Hiaasen. Any suggestions for
>> high-interest non-fiction? Other fiction titles I haven’t thought of?
>>
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>> Ms. Holly Pantle
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