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• A World of Stories Summer Adventure at AC Library

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  Ready to go on an adventure? Visit our website to learn more about our 2021 Summer Adventure, A World of Stories, from June 15 to August 15, 2021.

• Mathical Books

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  Award-winning books that inspire a love of math. Filter the list by age range and see "Mathical Honor Books" for more suggestions. Each featured book has additional resources on its page.

• Pigeon Math

  Citro, Asia,

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  Grades K-2. A hilarious, counting game story with pigeons that don’t stay put! Count the birds or solve the equations.

• Actual Size

  Jenkins, Steve, 1952-2021

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  Grades PreK-4. Life-size illustrations of animals including the eye of an octopus, the foot of an elephant, and the jaw of a crocodile. Relative size and other information about each animal is included in back pages for older readers.

• If...

  a Mind-bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers

  Smith, David J. (David Julian), 1944-

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  Grades 2-5. Vast numbers scaled down to understandable, illustrated concepts. For example, if the sun were the size of a grapefruit, Earth would be the size of a grain of salt.

• A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars

  Fishman, Seth,

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  Grades 2-4. “Huge numbers are around us everywhere.” We learn about how they estimate cities, people, ants, and stars, and an author's note teaches us how to name them. For lovers of facts here on Earth and in our universe.

• Infinity and Me

  Hosford, Kate

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  Grades K-3. So many ways to imagine infinity, what’s yours?

• The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity

  a Tale of the Genius Ramanujan

  Alznauer, Amy,

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  Grades K-4. A story about the boyhood of mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Watercolor illustrations capture the joy of asking deep questions about numbers great and small.

• Nothing Stopped Sophie

  the Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain

  Bardoe, Cheryl, 1971-

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  Grades K-4. "Telling Sophie not to think about math was like telling a bird not to soar.” Mathematician Sophie Germain overcomes obstacles in pursuing her passion for math, figuring out the formula to predict patterns of vibration.

• Chaldni Plates and Figures

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  Sound you can see! A demonstration of the beautiful patterns formed on resonating Chladni plates, the inspiration for Sophie Germain’s math.

• Hidden Figures

  the True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

  Shetterly, Margot Lee,

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  Grades K-3. "Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good." The story of four African American mathematicians who enabled some of NASA’s greatest successes.

• Mysterious Patterns

  Finding Fractals in Nature

  Campbell, Sarah C., 1966-

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  Grades K-2. It is hard to describe nature with perfect squares or circles. Many natural shapes are better described by fractals, where smaller parts of something look like the whole. Photo and illustrations – of everything from broccoli…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seven Golden Rings

  a Tale of Music and Math

  LaRocca, Rajani,

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  Grades 1-4. A clever tale of music and problem-solving set in ancient India. The book doubles as an introduction to binary numbers with further explanation in the author's note.

• Bedtime Math

  Overdeck, Laura,

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  Math stories for bedtime, with three levels of questions (from preschoolers to elementary school) to involve children at different ages. The first of three books. Find more fun activities at https://bedtimemath.org/category/daily-math/

• Secret Coders

  Yang, Gene Luen,

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  Grades 4-8. Not all is as it seems at 12-year-old Hopper’s new school. She and her new friend Eni must master the coding skills to unravel the mystery. First book in the series.

• Finding Gossamyr. Volume 1

  Rodriguez, David, 1965-

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  Grades 2-6. Math is literally magic in Gossamyr, an enchanted world 10-year-old Denny and his sister/caretaker, Jenna, enter after he finds the answer to an unsolvable and mystical equation (Publishers Weekly).

• Can You Crack the Code?

  a Fascinating History of Ciphers and Cryptography

  Schwartz, Ella, 1974-

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  Grades 4-7. Codes can carry big secrets! Throughout history, lots of good guys and lots of bad guys have used codes to keep their messages under wraps. This fun and flippable nonfiction features stories of hidden treasures, war-time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grasping Mysteries

  Girls Who Loved Math

  Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-

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  Grades 5-8. This novel-in-verse collection “honors women who used math to frame and solve problems, fix things, or understand the size of the universe.” Chronicles seven groundbreaking women in math and science, including Caroline…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wonder Women of Science

  Twelve Geniuses Who Are Currently Rocking Science, Technology, and the World

  Fletcher, Tiera, 1995-

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  Grades 5-9. Meet award-winning aerospace engineer Tiera Fletcher and twelve other science superstars and hear them tell in their own words not only about their fascinating work, but also about their childhoods and the paths they traveled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Case of the Missing Moonstone

  Stratford, Jordan,

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  Grades 5-8. Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen…Read moreRead more of this annotation