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Science Rocks! And so do Jennifer Swanson’s books. She is the award-winning author of over 45 nonfiction books for children. Using her background in science and history that she received from the U.S. Naval Academy, and her M.S. in Education, Jennifer excels at taking complex facts and making them accessible, compelling, and humorous for young readers, Jennifer's passion for science resonates in in all her books but especially, Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact and BEASTLY BIONICS which both received Florida Book Awards and NSTA BEST STEM book awards. Her Save the Crash-test Dummies book received an NSTA BEST STEM Award and a Parent’s Choice GOLD Award. Jennifer has been a featured speaker at the Tucson Book Fes ...more

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Interview with Author Stephanie Willing

Today, please join me in welcoming Stephanie Willing to the Mixed-Up Files Author Spotlight! Author of the gripping MG horror novel, She Came Back Different, which has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, the book follows six young dancers who enter the Stadler Ballet Conservatory and the horrors they discover once they get there. (Spoiler alert: It isn’t pretty.)

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Average rating: 4.2 · 1,260 ratings · 309 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook. (Big Fat Notebooks). 4.29 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	National Geographic Kids Brain Games: The Mind-Blowing Science of Your Amazing Brain 4.32 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding by Jennifer Swanson (Goodreads Author), Veronica Miller Jamison (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.35 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pearl Harbor (American Girl: Real Stories From My Time) (4) by Jennifer Swanson (Goodreads Author), Kelley McMorris (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 95 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact by Jennifer Swanson (Goodreads Author), Fabien Cousteau (Foreword), Kathryn D. Sullivan (Foreword) 4.29 avg rating — 84 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Footprints Across the Planet 4.25 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	National Geographic Kids Everything Robotics: All the Photos, Facts, and Fun to Make You Race for Robots 4.48 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spies, Lies, and Disguise: The Daring Tricks and Deeds that Won World War II 3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Save the Crash-test Dummies by Jennifer Swanson (Goodreads Author), TeMika Grooms (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolute Expert: Dolphins: All the Latest Facts from the Field 4.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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LOL Physical Science (2 books)
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