Jess Keating

Independent Reading Level: Grades K-3, Lexile NC1040
Awards:Silver Birch Award for Non-FictionNOMINEE 2017
Amazon Best of the MonthSELECTION 2016
Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the YearSELECTION
Horned Toad Tale ListSELECTION 2017
Illinois State Library Monarch AwardSELECTION 2018
Connecticut Nutmeg Children’s Book AwardAWARD 2018

This book is about the life of Eugenia, a scientist interested in sharks. It talks about her defying many people's belief in her abilities and becoming a scientist. She made several discoveries and disproved that sharks always had to keep moving. This book would be great for 3rd graders to learn that they can defy odds and do anything they put their minds to. This also speaks to following your passions. I think that this could pair well with a lesson on perseverance and working hard.

We love sharks around here, and even my kindergartener was enraptured by Clark's journey into studying sharks (despite being written for an older crowd).

This is a nice biography of Jeanne Villepreaux-Power an early scientific pioneer and naturalist.