8 Top science books like Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons by Laura Purdie Salas

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Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

By: Laura Purdie Salas

4.52

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Discover the true story of an orphaned mallard duckling being raised by a pair of loons. On a la…

If you liked the science plot in Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons by Laura Purdie Salas , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

Similar categories in Vashti Harrison's Big book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • picture books
  • childrens
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2. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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3. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • family
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4. Orris and Timble: The Beginning

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.37

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early-reader trilo… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Orris and Timble: The Beginning book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • animals
  • birds
  • picture books
  • childrens
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5. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • nonfiction
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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6. Mr. S: A First Day of School Book

By: Monica Arnaldo

4.21

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

It was the first day of school. But even the kindergarteners of room 2B could tell something was se… read more

Similar categories in Monica Arnaldo's Mr. S: A First Day of School Book book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • picture books
  • childrens
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7. Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider

By: Jessica Lanan

4.40

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A nonfiction story following a day in the life of a backyard jumping spider.What if you were small … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Lanan's Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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8. Our Pool

By: Lucy Ruth Cummins

4.25

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day, people come from all over the city to spend the day at the pool in this joyful pictur… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Ruth Cummins's Our Pool book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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9. Invisible Things

By: Andy J Pizza

4.29

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

This creatively wacky exploration of the invisible things that make up the human experience encoura… read more

Similar categories in Andy J Pizza's Invisible Things book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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10. Beneath

By: Cori Doerrfeld

4.42

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning story from New York Times bestselling creator Cori Doerrfeld, a child and their gr… read more

Similar categories in Cori Doerrfeld's Beneath book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • family
  • nature
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11. Butt or Face?

By: Kari Lavelle

4.46

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Using a cheeky guessing game format, Butt or Face? is a hilarious nonfiction picture book that teac… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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12. My Powerful Hair: A Picture Book

By: Carole Lindstrom

4.57

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of We Are Water Protectors comes an empowering pictur… read more

Similar categories in Carole Lindstrom's My Powerful Hair: A Picture Book book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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13. Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

By: Candace Fleming

4.15

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave an… read more

Similar categories in Candace Fleming's Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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14. The North Wind and the Sun

By: Philip C. Stead

4.07

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

She Persisted meets Be Kind in this reinterpretation of a classic fable, whose timeless message of … read more

Similar categories in Philip C. Stead's The North Wind and the Sun book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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15. Just a Worm

By: Marie Boyd

4.19

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Upset at being called "just a worm," worm sets out around the garden to find out what the other ins… read more

Similar categories in Marie Boyd's Just a Worm book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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16. You Are a Raccoon! (Meet Your World)

By: Laurie Ann Thompson

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The second in an adorable, STEM nonfiction picture book series that encourages very young readers t… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Ann Thompson's You Are a Raccoon! (Meet Your World) book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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17. Animals in Surprising Shades: Poems About Earth's Colorful Creatures

By: Susan Johnston Taylor

4.83

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Rosy pinks, regal blues, radiant greens Adorn birds, bugs, snails, slugs. Instead of paint on can… read more

Similar categories in Susan Johnston Taylor's Animals in Surprising Shades: Poems About Earth's Colorful Creatures book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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18. You Are a Honey Bee! (Meet Your World)

By: Laurie Ann Thompson

4.23

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The first in an adorable, STEM nonfiction picture book series that encourages very young readers to… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Ann Thompson's You Are a Honey Bee! (Meet Your World) book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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19. The Together Tree

By: Aisha Saeed

4.27

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

All Are Welcome meets Be Kind in this poignant and accessible picture book about the power every by… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Saeed's The Together Tree book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • picture books
  • childrens
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20. My Grandpa, My Tree, and Me

By: Roxanne Troup

4.56

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

*Named Ag Foundation's BOOK OF THE YEAR in 2024 In this moving tale about the depths of love and… read more

Similar categories in Roxanne Troup's My Grandpa, My Tree, and Me book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • nature
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21. A Stone Is a Story

By: Leslie Barnard Booth

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Follow a stone’s journey through time as it faces ice, water, wind, and scorching heat in this beau… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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22. Molly's Tuxedo

By: Vicki Johnson

4.50

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

*2024 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction For Children Recommended Book and 2024 ALA … read more

Similar categories in Vicki Johnson's Molly's Tuxedo book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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23. The Planet We Call Home

By: Aimee Isaac

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and loving ode to Planet Earth and the ways in which its many features are interconnected… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Isaac's The Planet We Call Home book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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24. Not a Monster

By: Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

4.18

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

With Spanish vocabulary and a clever color concept, this poetic picture book shares the life cycle … read more

Similar categories in Claudia Guadalupe Martinez's Not a Monster book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion by Heather Ferranti Kinser

25. Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion

By: Heather Ferranti Kinser

4.55

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Glaciers, rivers, wind, and rain are a few of the elements that shape the landscape in powerful way… read more

Similar categories in Heather Ferranti Kinser's Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons by Laura Purdie  Salas

26. Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

By: Laura Purdie Salas

4.52

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Discover the true story of an orphaned mallard duckling being raised by a pair of loons. On a la… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Yoshi's Big Swim: One Turtle's Epic Journey Home by Mary Wagley Copp

27. Yoshi's Big Swim: One Turtle's Epic Journey Home

By: Mary Wagley Copp

4.38

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Yoshi’s Big Swim chronicles the impressive true story of Yoshi, a loggerhead turtle who was rescued… read more

Similar categories in Mary Wagley Copp's Yoshi's Big Swim: One Turtle's Epic Journey Home book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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28. The Forest Keeper– The True Story of Jadav Payeng

By: Rina Singh

4.37

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Trees don’t grow on sandbars . . . but a boy from India grew a forest.What can one person do in the… read more

Similar categories in Rina Singh's The Forest Keeper– The True Story of Jadav Payeng book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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29. Dear Earth…From Your Friends in Room 5

By: Erin Dealey

4.31

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"A well-thought-out presentation of an important environmental message." — Kirkus When the kids in … read more

Similar categories in Erin Dealey's Dear Earth…From Your Friends in Room 5 book and Laura Purdie Salas's Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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30. One Small Thing

By: Marsha Diane Arnold

4.51

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

After Raccoon's home burns down in a lightning storm, his friends don't know what they can do to he… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Hear Them Roar: 14 Endangered Animals from Around the World by June Smalls

31. Hear Them Roar: 14 Endangered Animals from Around the World

By: June Smalls

4.67

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A Children's Book Council Hot of the Press Selection All around the world, animals that were once … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • animals

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