5 must-read science books like Pocket Genius: Sharks by D.K. Publishing

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Pocket Genius: Sharks

By: D.K. Publishing

4.47

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Destined to be toted in school backpacks everywhere, this new encyclopedia series for young readers…

If you liked the science plot in Pocket Genius: Sharks by D.K. Publishing , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1) by Sara Shepard

1. Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)

By: Sara Shepard

3.85

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE - ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SPENCER, ARIA, EMILY, AND HANNASpen… read more

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"Holy shit,"

-Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)

"Hell is other people."

-Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)

"I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A"

-Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)

"You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!"

-Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)

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2. I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

By: Nora Ephron

3.80

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

Here is the beloved, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck at her funniest, wisest, and be… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My religion is Get Over It."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?"

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

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3. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness book and D.K. Publishing's Pocket Genius: Sharks

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • science
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4. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

By: Mary Roach

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In ?Bonk,?the best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most al… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

5. The One and Only Ivan

By: Katherine Applegate , Patricia Castelao

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accu… read more

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6. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more

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7. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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8. Ancient Egypt

By: George Hart

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full-color photos. From the splendor of the pharaoh's court to the everyday life of ordinary people… read more

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9. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

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10. Island of the Blue Dolphins

By: Scott O'Dell

3.87

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, … read more

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"They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy."

-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

"Everyone in our tribe had two names, the real one which was secret and was seldom used, and one which was common, for if people use your secret name it becomes worn out and loses its magic."

-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

"Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet."

-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

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11. Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)

By: Victoria Aveyard

3.59

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08CZHZSRW. --- Save the world or end it. A strange darkness i… read more

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"To those who seek and never find"

-Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)

"Discord is a better shield than steel."

-Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)

"Her silence was her best quality. Perhaps her only good one."

-Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)

"I wanted the horizon more than I wanted any cup or coin or concubine."

-Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1)

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12. How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

By: Leslie Jordan

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"True happiness can only come from being of loving service to others, especially those in the last throes of life's journey."

-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

"I suppose someone had tossed the puppy out of the car, since we were in the middle of nowhere, too far out for a puppy to get to on her own. Who on Earth would do such a thing?! People like that need…"

-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

"When our country was erupting in protests and marches, asking for the end of injustice against African American men and women, I was somewhat chastised by many of my followers for not speaking out ag…"

-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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13. Outlawed

By: Anna North

3.51

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life… read more

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"Knowledge can be very valuable, but only if people want it. If they don't, it can be worse than useless."

-Anna North, Outlawed

"Everybody cheers the hanging of a witch," I said. Agnes Rose looked at her dainty watch. "Everybody but us," she said, and she took the matches from me and set one of the ledgers alight."

-Anna North, Outlawed

"Mama says at every birth, death is in the room. You can try to ignore it, or you can acknowledge it, and greet it like a guest, and then you won't be so afraid anymore." Bee looked skeptical. "How do…"

-Anna North, Outlawed

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14. Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

By: Danna Staaf

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, the… read more

Similar categories in Danna Staaf's Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods book and D.K. Publishing's Pocket Genius: Sharks

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • science
Cover of Pocket Genius: Sharks by D.K. Publishing

15. Pocket Genius: Sharks

By: D.K. Publishing

4.47

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Destined to be toted in school backpacks everywhere, this new encyclopedia series for young readers… read more

Similar categories in D.K. Publishing's Pocket Genius: Sharks book and D.K. Publishing's Pocket Genius: Sharks

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • science

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I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

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3.80

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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

4.33

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

4.20

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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Dan Egan

4.23

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Matt Candeias

4.17

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Jaime Green

4.02

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