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By: Kenneth Rosenberg

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math each play an important part in the gaming industry. This volume takes a look at various gaming industry jobs, discussing what it takes to obtain these jobs and what types of tasks each job entails. Includes before and after reading activities.

The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook: Build 18 Innovative Projects With Brain Power

By: Lance Akiyama

18 STEAM approved projects to get kids doing, thinking, and building!

Marvelous Makeable Monsters

By: Sam Haynor

Make silly beasts that jump, fly, spin, shake, light up, and even spit. Some monsters are made with circuits and wires while others are built with more common craft materials. Fun for kids and adults with step by step photos for each project.

STEAM jobs in forensics

By: Shirley Smith Duke

Discover how science, technology, engineering, art and math are used to discover clues, analyze evidence, identify suspects and victims, and pursue justice.

Leonardo's Science Workshop: Invent, Create, and make STEAM Projects like a Genius

By: Heidi Olinger

The first book in a new project-based STEAM series for kids, inspired by the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math of Leonardo Da Vinci.

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Dude, That's Rude! (Get Some Manners) by Pamela Espeland & Elizabeth Verdick

If there's one book today's kids need to read, it is Dude, That's Rude! (Get Some Manners) . The authors provide a fun format for teaching etiquette to children. They discuss proper behavior at home, at school, at other people's homes and in public places. The information is completely up-to-date with cellphone manners and netiquette included. Fun, cartoony illustrations are on practically every page giving the book great visual appeal. This book is perfect for boys and girls in the fourth grade or older. WARNING: Bodily functions are discussed.

Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin

Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin Illustrated by Leslie Evans Charlesburg; 2009; unpaged Faces of the Moon is a short nonfiction book that describes the different phases of the moon and why the moon appears like it does on certain nights. This book is short and sweet so even the youngest of moon lovers will enjoy it. The layout is simplistic and easy to follow. I don’t know much about the moon so I found it very interesting.

Review: The Factory

The Factory By Catherine Egan New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2025. Fiction. 306 pages. Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle has been invited to join the Factory, a secretive research facility in the desert which ostensibly extracts renewable energy from the electromagnetic fields of its young recruits. But Asher soon realizes something sinister is going on. Kids are getting sick. The adults who run the Factory seem to be keeping secrets. And the extraction process is not only painful and exhausting, but existentially troubling. Asher makes a handful of new friends who help him with an investigation that turns into a resistance, which turns into...a cliffhanger! The Factory is a page-turning sci-fi with multidimensional characters, an intriguing plot, and refreshingly straight-forward writing. Egan weaves in detail about climate crises and social unrest, making the story's dystopian setting feel rich and plausible. With its sophisticated themes and accessible storytelling, I would recomm...

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