Longlist for 2021 Middle Grades Science Book Award

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AAAS and Subaru are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Middle Grades Science Book category. The Prize celebrates outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults and is meant to encourage the writing and publishing of high-quality science books for all ages.

The longlist titles in the 2021 Middle Grades Science Book category are:

• The Book of Big Science Ideas: From Atoms to AI and from Gravity to Genes...How Science Shapes our World, by Freya Hardy. Illustrated by Sara Mulvanny. Ivy Kids, 2019.

• Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest, by Peter Wohlleben. Translated by Shelley Tanaka. Greystone Books, 2019.

• Condor Comeback, by Sy Montgomery. Photographs by Tianne Strombeck. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

• Eclipse Chaser: Science in the Moon's Shadow, by Ilima Loomis. Photographs by Amanda Cowan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

• Eels, by Rachel Poliquin. Illustrated by Nicholas John Frith. Clarion Books, 2020.

• Growing Up Gorilla: How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together, by Clare Hodgson Meeker. Lerner Publishing Group, 2020.

• Save the Crash-test Dummies, by Jennifer Swanson. Illustrated by TeMika Grooms. Peachtree Publishing Company Inc., 2019.

• Under Pressure: The Science of Stress by Tanya Lloyd Kyi. Illustrated by Marie-Ève Tremblay. Kids Can Press, 2019.

Finalists for the 2021 Prize will be announced in November 2020. The Prize winners will be announced in January 2021.

The longlist for the Children’s Science Picture Book category was announced earlier in the week.