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This is a board book. The cover is black with a blue spine; on the surface is a prism with white light entering on the right into a rainbow on the left. "Let's Make a Rainbow! is written in white on top.

Let's Make a Rainbow: Seeing the Science of Light with Optical Physics by Chris Ferrie.

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
The paperback comic illustrates two active volcanoes at full thrust: a young explorer sits at the base. The sky is muted purple with yellow and orange fire and smoke spewing out the tops of the blue volcanoes.

Science Comics: Volcanoes: Fire and Life by Jon Chad

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Red and yellow book cover of '100 Things to Know About the Human Body' with illustration of key topics like 'your finger muscles are in your arm', 'you cry two types of tears'

100 Things to Know About the Human Body

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
Green and yellow book cover of "100 Things to Know About Science" with illustrations and facts such as an octopus with " An octopus has three hearts."

100 Things to Know About Science

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
Green and yellow book cover of "100 Things to Know About Planet Earth" with illustrations and facts such as a flamingo and " A toxic pink lake is a paradise for flamingoes."

100 Things to Know About Planet Earth

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
There are twelve boxes in four rows with images in bright colors depicting sight, eyes, and optical illusions on the cover of Sight: Glimmer, Glow, SPARK, FLASH! By Romana Romanyshyn & Audriy Lesiv.

Sight: Glimmer, Glow, SPARK, FLASH! By Romana Romanyshyn & Audriy Lesiv

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
Blue and yellow cover showing four scientists and their discoveries.

The Amazing Discoveries of 100 Brilliant Scientists by Abigail Wheatley

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
The book cover is blue with ten white line drawings of different animals that can take flight, such as a bat, a butterfly, a hawk, a sparrow, and a flying squirrel.

Book of Flight: 10 Record-Breaking Animals with Wings By Gabrielle Balkan

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
A pink and blue box with samples of mini animals that you can make. Included are a panda, a fox, a bunny, an octopus, a penguin, a sloth, and a bird,

Klutz Sew Mini Animals: More Than 12 Animal Plushies to Stitch and Stuff

$ 22.99
$ 22.99
"Speed Solving The Cube" is a small white paperback book with an unsolved Rubik's cube on the cover set to show the 3x3 structure.

Speedsolving the Cube: Easy-to-Follow, Step-by-Step Instructions for Many Popular 3-D Puzzles by Dan Harris

$ 11.99
$ 11.99
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The hardcover book has two people in silhouette in a suburban setting gazing and pointing up to the constellations in the night sky. A glow-in-the-dark cover emblem is on the left coner.

Sky Gazing: A Guide to the Moon, Sun, Planets, Stars, Eclipses, and Constellations by Meg Thacher

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Packing for Mars for Kids is a hardback book with a black cover: there is a kid-sized astronaut at the bottom with different animate objects, a phone, toilet paper, toothpaste, underwear, soap, a toilet, and a duck in a hot air balloon from the stories floating all around its head.

Packing for Mars for Kids by Mary Roach

$ 16.95
$ 16.95
Pedro Perfecto, Arquitecto by Andrea Beaty

Pedro Perfecto, Arquitecto by Andrea Beaty

$ 17.95
$ 17.95
STEM Baby Science: A toddler sits at a table with red liquid in her hand and on the table with test tubes. A beaker with clear liquid sits to her left, with cartoon bubbles cascading upward.

STEM Baby: Science by Dana Goldberg

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
An illustration of Iggy Peck, a child architect, drawing one of his buildings, he is surrounded by his creations and measuring devices.

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
STEM Baby Technology: A baby sits at a table watching a program on an iPhone, and a drawing of a rocket and a satellite is above the baby's head.

STEM Baby: Technology by Dana Goldberg

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
STEM Baby Engineering: A toddler sits at a table with tools in their hands, tinkering. Cartoon gears emphasize the engineer.

STEM Baby: Engineering by Dana Goldberg

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
This hardcover book has a blue cover with a large O for Octopuses; a red octopus is lying on the bottom of the O.

Octopuses Have Zero Bones by Anne Richardson

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
This book is a paperback illustrated cover featuring Asian American scientist Isabella Aiona Abbot, physician Margaret Chung, and astronaut Kalpana Chawla.

Asian American Women in Science by Tina Cho

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
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The book's cover features a young Gaby González standing on science books drawing in the sky while Albert Einstein watches. Illustrated in blues with white, pink, green, and brown pops.

How to Hear the Universe by Patricia Valdez

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
Little People, Big Dreams Mae Jemison by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara

Little People, Big Dreams Mae Jemison by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
A paperback book with a green and white cover featuring three prominent scientific men, James McCune Smith, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Rick Kittles.

Black Men in Science By Bryan Patrick Avery

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
Leland Melvin is pictured in front of an image of earth from space in his orange space suit with two dogs on his lap; one is licking him.

Chasing Space by Leland Melvin (Young Readers Edition)

$ 7.99
$ 7.99
An illustration of Ellen standing in front of the night sky in her orange space suit, holding her helmet.

The Solar System with - El Sistema Solar con Ellen (English and Spanish Edition) by Patty Rodriguez

$ 9.99
$ 9.99