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Jennifer Swanson

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Children's Books, Science, History

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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 Sara Shacter

I have known author Sara Shacter since we were both on the newer side to writing for children. I am so excited that I got a first-look at her debut novel Georgia Watson and the 99 Percent Campaign which just came out October 14, 2025.

About the Book

Hi Sara! Congrats on your debut middle grade novel! Can you give us a short summary about the book?

After years of moving, Georgia’s family is stayi

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Jennifer Swanson’s books

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	Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook. (Big Fat Notebooks). 4.26 avg rating — 184 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 — 112 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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 — 99 ratings — published 2024	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 — 82 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
	Pearl Harbor (American Girl: Real Stories From My Time) (4) by Jennifer Swanson (Goodreads Author), Kelley McMorris (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 87 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 4.31 avg rating — 74 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 4.47 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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 3.75 avg rating — 51 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) 3.87 avg rating — 39 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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