Hi! I thought I'd put in a hit for this thread. THANK YOU for so many
replies, and expedient ones at that!! Even though I'm quiet on this list, I
truly value your help and vast knowledge! Thanks again.
There were many suggestions of Hot Zone, among others. :)
Connie Joyce, MLIS Student/Teacher
Ontario, California
cjoyce101@earthlink.net
I just started reading the new book Phineas Gage; a Gruesome but True Story
about Brain Science by John Fleischman (Houghton Mifflin,2002, ISBN
0618052526). On the cover is an attractive photograph of a skull on a black
background. Even my college graduate son noticed this book on the kitchen
table and started reading it! This is the true story of a railroad
construction foreman who had a 13 pound iron rod smash through his brain in
1848, yet he recovered to live another 11 years, yet he was not really the
same personality as before. Very fascinating medical science book.
Anyone would be interested in this book, yet the 75 pages could be
understood by teens as young as 13 years old.
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Dust : a history of the small and the invisible
Amato, Joseph Anthony. - University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. :
c2000. (551.51) #28610K7 YA Publisher's Hardcover 37.80
The variety of life : a survey and a celebration of all the creatures that
have ever lived
Tudge, Colin. - Oxford University Press, Oxford ; New York : 2000. (578)
#20316K8 YA Publisher's Hardcover 64.80
Wilderness and razor wire
Lamberton, Ken, 1959- - Mercury House, San Francisco : c2000. (508.791)
#14446K7 YA Paperback 13.95
These were all star reviewed in Booklist, got this off Follett Titlewave -
searched nonfiction, science, young adult, starred reviews. hope it helps.
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Almost anything by Stephen Gould would be good. Or, if you haven't read
it previously, Rachel Carson's _The Edge of the Sea_.
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An Earth Science teacher tested a number of titles out on her 9th
graders
this year and here are some of the favorites:
Martin, Jesse. Lionheart: a Journey of the Human Spirit (An account of an
Australian 17 yr. old's solo voyage around the world in a sailboat
unassisted
by fossil fuels or stops at ports - he broke the world record)
Norgay, Jamling Tenzing. Touching My Father's Soul. (The son of the sherpa
guide who accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary to the top of Everest tells about
his
own adventures with the ill-fated '99 expedition.)
Hickham, Homer. Rocket Boys. (Remember the movie October Sky? Same story)
Hawkings, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. (The cerebral types pick this
and
believe it or not, it gets stolen every year!)
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What about The Hot Zone by Richard Preston?
The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban
Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical
epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything
Hollywood could think of, because it's all true.
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What about Hot Zone? I can't remember author's name. It came out several
years ago and is about the ebola virus almost getting loose in Northern
Virginia.
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I have a couple of suggestions that I think might fit your description,
although I am not sure exactly what is meant by "pop-science"...popular?
Anyway, the first is called Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History by
Penny Colman. This is a fascinating book that many teens love. It looks at
what happens to the human body following death and also examines customs
related to death in various cultures. Really a neat book. Another couple of
suggestions would be Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Diseases by
Jeanette Farrell and The Planet Hunters: The SEarch for Other Worlds by
Dennis Fradin. The first contains rather graphic accounts of various
infectious diseases such as smallpox and AIDS. The second title discusses
various scientists and their quests to discover life on other planets. Both
are good, non-fiction reads of interest to teens. I hope this helps!
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The Hot Zone, about the ebola virus. Reads like sci-fi and is scary, too!.
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