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 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books 


Previous Winners of the SB&F Prizes

(Click HERE for a list of past year's finalists.)

2009 Winners
Lifetime Acheivement Award

Jean Craighead George is an award-winning author of over 100 children's science books, including Newbery Medal winner, Julie of the Wolves and most recently, The Wolves Are Back.

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Children's Science Picture Book

Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World. Steven Jenkins & Robin Page. Houghton Mifflin, 2008

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Middle Grades Science Book

How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate: Scientists & Kids Explore Global Warming. Lynne Cherry & Gary Braasch. Dawn, 2008

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Young Adult Science Book

Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. Sandra Aamodt & Sam Wang. Bloomsbury, 2008

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Hands-on Science Book

True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet. Kim McKay & Jenny Bonnin. National Geographic, 2008

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2008 Winners  
Children's Science Picture Book
Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed and Revealed by David Schwartz and Yael Schy, with illustrations by Dwight Kuhn. Tricycle Press, 2007.

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Middle Grades Science Book
Dinosaur Eggs Discovered: Unscrambling the Clues! by Lowell Dingus, Luis M. Chaippe, and Rodolfo Coria. Twenty-First Century Books, 2007.

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Young Adult Science Book
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston. Random House, 2007.

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Hands-on Science Book
  Exploratopia by Pat Murphy. Little Brown & Company, 2006.

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2007 Winners
Children's Science Book
An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Aston, with illustrations by Sylvia Long. Chronicle Books, 2006.

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Middle Grades Science Book
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

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Young Adult Science Book
Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations by Eric Dinerstein. Island Press, 2006.

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Hands-on Science Book
Thomas Edison for Kids: His Life and Ideas: 21 Activities by Laurie Carlson. Chicago Review Press, 2006.

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2006 Winners
Children's Science Picture Book
Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Ann Jonas. HarperCollins, 2005.

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Middle Grades Science Book

The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands
, written and photographed by Sneed B. Collard, III. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

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Young Adult Science Book
Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives by Jeanette Farrell. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2005.

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Hands-on Science Book


The Amateur Naturalist by Nick Baker. National Geographic Press, 2005.

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