Reference List for "Reading to Learn" in the Science Education KLA

Title

Author/ Editor /Translator

Publisher

Yr of Publication

ISBN/ ISSN

Level (KS 1/2/3/4)

Title:
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Larry Gonick & Mark Wheelis
Publisher:
William Morrow
Yr of Publication:
1991
ISBN/ ISSN:
978-0-06-273099-2
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Brenda Maddox (Author)
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Yr of Publication:
2003
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780060985080
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Rebecca Skloot (Author)
Publisher:
Broadway Books
Yr of Publication:
2011
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781400052189
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
How baking works: exploring the fundamentals of baking science
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Figoni, Paula.
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons
Yr of Publication:
2011
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780470392676
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Victor Sampson (Author), Patrick Enderle (Author), Leeanne Gleim (Author), Jonathon Grooms (Author), Melanie Hester (Author), Sherry Southerland (Author), Kristin Wilson (Author)
Publisher:
National Science Teachers Association - NSTA Press
Yr of Publication:
2014
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781938946202
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
BioBuilder Synthetic Biology in the Lab
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Natalie Kuldell (Author), Rachel Bernstein (Author), Karen Ingram (Author), Kathryn M Hart (Author)
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Yr of Publication:
2015
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781491904299
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Jack Challoner (Author)
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Yr of Publication:
2015
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780226224183
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Cell Biology by the Numbers
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Ron Milo (Author), Rob Phillips (Author)
Publisher:
Garland Science
Yr of Publication:
2015
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780815345374
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Nick Lane
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Yr of Publication:
2016
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780393352979
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Selfish Gene
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Richard Dawkins
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Yr of Publication:
2016
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780198788607
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Adam Rutherford (Author)
Publisher:
W&N
Yr of Publication:
2017
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781780229072
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Biotechnology in cartoons
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Reinhard Renneberg (Author), Ming-fai Chow (Illustrator), Viola Berkling (Contributor)
Publisher:
Springer
Yr of Publication:
2017
ISBN/ ISSN:
9783319334219
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Meredith Wadman (Author)
Publisher:
Doubleday
Yr of Publication:
2017
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780857522726
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Luke Timmerman (Author), Tracy Cutchlow (Editor), George Church (Foreword)
Publisher:
Bandera Press
Yr of Publication:
2017
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780997709339
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Thinking Like a Phage: The Genius of the Viruses That Infect Bacteria and Archaea
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Merry Youle (Author), Leah Pantéa (Illustrator)
Publisher:
Wholon
Yr of Publication:
2017
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780990494317
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The chemistry of human nature
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Husband, Tom
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Yr of Publication:
2017
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781782621348
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
A Crack in Creation Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Yr of Publication:
2018
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781328915368
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Exploring Biology in the Laboratory
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Murray P. Pendarvis, John L. Crawley
Publisher:
Morton Publishing Company
Yr of Publication:
2018
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781617317552
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Ed Yong (Author)
Publisher:
Ecco
Yr of Publication:
2018
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780062368607
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Blossoms: And the Genes that make them
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Maxine F. Singer (Author)
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Yr of Publication:
2018
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780198811138
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Ross D E MacPhee (Author), Peter Schouten (Illustrator)
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Yr of Publication:
2018
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780393249293
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder’s Work in Neuroscience
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Charlotte Nassim (Author)
Publisher:
The MIT Press
Yr of Publication:
2018
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780262037785
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr (Author)
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Yr of Publication:
2018
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780674971011
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Jamie Metzl
Publisher:
Sourcebooks
Yr of Publication:
2019
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781492670094
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Michael F. Land (Author)
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Yr of Publication:
2019
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780198747710
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Author/ Editor /Translator:
David Reich
Publisher:
Vintage
Yr of Publication:
2019
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781101873465
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Around the World in 80 Trees
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Jonathan Drori (Author), Lucille Clerc (Illustrator)
Publisher:
Laurence King Publishing
Yr of Publication:
2020
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781786276063
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Helen Scales (Author)
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Sigma
Yr of Publication:
2020
ISBN/ ISSN:
9781472936820
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls: Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future
Author/ Editor /Translator:
David Hu (Author)
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Yr of Publication:
2020
ISBN/ ISSN:
9780691204161
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
A Monk and Two Peas
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Yr of Publication:
2001
ISBN/ ISSN:
0753811227
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Chemistry and light
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Paul Suppan
Publisher:
Springer Verlag
Yr of Publication:
1994
ISBN/ ISSN:
0851868142
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Chemistry and science fiction
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Jack H. Stocker
Publisher:
Washington, DC: American Chemical Society
Yr of Publication:
1998
ISBN/ ISSN:
0841232482
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
Author/ Editor /Translator:
James Dewey Watson
Publisher:
Science Publishers
Yr of Publication:
2006
ISBN/ ISSN:
7-03-015651-X
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Ways Life Works
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Hoagland, M. & Dodson, B.
Publisher:
Three River Press
Yr of Publication:
1998
ISBN/ ISSN:
0-8129-2020-1
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Let Them Eat Flax!: 70 All-new Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Life
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Publisher:
ECW Press
Yr of Publication:
2005
ISBN/ ISSN:
1550226983
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: ...and Other Tales About the Genes in Your Body
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Lisa Seachrist Chiu
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Yr of Publication:
2007
ISBN/ ISSN:
0195327063
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Dinosaurs: Why They Disappeared
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Eric Buffetaut
Publisher:
Cassell Illustrated
Yr of Publication:
2002
ISBN/ ISSN:
1842021206
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Introducing Evolution
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Dylan Evans; Howard Selina
Publisher:
Totem Books
Yr of Publication:
2001
ISBN/ ISSN:
1840462655
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Introducing Genetics
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Steve Jones; Borin Van Loon
Publisher:
Totem Books
Yr of Publication:
2001
ISBN/ ISSN:
1840461209
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Frances Ashcroft
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Yr of Publication:
2001
ISBN/ ISSN:
0006551254
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
The Science of " Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World"
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Rob Desalle
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Yr of Publication:
1998
ISBN/ ISSN:
0060977353
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Visualizing Chemistry: Investigations for Teachers
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Ealy, J.B. & Ealy, Jr., J.L.
Publisher:
The American Chemical Society
Yr of Publication:
1995
ISBN/ ISSN:
0841229198
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Watson and DNA - Making a Scientific Revolution
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Victor K. McElheny
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Yr of Publication:
2003
ISBN/ ISSN:
0470854294
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: Understanding Patterns of Life on Earth
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Chris Lavers
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Yr of Publication:
2000
ISBN/ ISSN:
0575402105
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4
Title:
Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them
Author/ Editor /Translator:
Cindy Engel
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Yr of Publication:
2003
ISBN/ ISSN:
0753816768
Level (KS 1/2/3/4):
KS 4

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*KS 1: Primary 1 - Primary 3; KS 2: Primary 4 - Primary 6;

KS 3: Secondary 1 - Secondary 3;KS 4: Senior Secondary