I like to think that if I hadn't been a teen librarian I might have been a scientist, so I love finding books that help me imagine my alternate life! Here are some of my favorite science reads.
Deadly by Julie Chibbaro: I never read historical fiction, but this one reads more like a forensic mystery and I was hooked from the first page! In the early nineteen-hundreds, Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting in an investigation into the spread of typhoid fever. This book made me think about how amazing it must have been to be a scientist in a time when germs were a relatively new concept.
Virals by Kathy Reichs: Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage science-lovers who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever. This book is science fiction, but it makes the science part really cool and easy to understand. If you like this one, check out the sequel, Seizure, which involves a pirate treasure!
The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery by Alane Ferguson: Seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney works as an assistant to her father, who is a coroner. She uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to try to catch the the person who killed a friend, but also manages to put herself in terrible danger. This book is a little gruesome at times, but if you have the stomach for it, it reads like an episode of CSI.
What other great science books have you found?
