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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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By day, Matt Landis is a middle school social studies teacher in Warrington, Pennsylvania; but by night (and, well, sometimes also by day…), he’s the author of some high adventure, high stakes, middle grade books. 

 

Matt’s National Archives Hunters series features 10-year-old twins who become unofficial “consultants” who assist the FBI’s Art Crime Team to help find and recover stolen relics from hi

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