Geology Book List

• Rocks and Minerals
• Rock Cycle and Soil
• Fossils
• Dinosaurs

Books About Rocks and Minerals

• Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
  Ages 4-8. 32 pages.
• The Pebble in my Pocket: A History of Our Earth by Meredith Hooper
  Ages 9-12. 40 pages. The curious question of "Where did you come from?" takes readers on a timeline journey with a pebble.
• Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst
  Ages 4-8. 32 pages. A biographical retelling of a man who always loved rocks until one day he's offered a job in a museum, even though he doesn't have a college degree.
• Basher: Rocks & Minerals: A Gem of a Book by Dan Green
  Ages 9-12. 128 pages. Three interesting facts, a short description, and a list of basic facts (chemical formula, hardness, etc.) are provided about each rock in this book that uses a first-person, conversational style in its writing.
• The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore W. Gray
  Ages 10 and up. 240 pages. A phenomenal pictoral approach to understanding the periodic table of elements. A number of elements feature mineral rocks.

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Books About the Rock Cycle and Soil

• The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole
  Ages 4-8. 40 pages. A read-aloud storybook that goes on an adventure inside the Earth's core to collect rock. samples
• Rocky Road Trip MSB Chapter Book by Judith Bauer Stamper
  Ages 4-8. 89 pages. An early chapter book about rock identification.
• Rockhead by Brian Kure
  Ages 6-10. 32 pages. After a freak accident, a boy discovers his geologic powers that will save his town.
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  Ages 9-12. 128 pages. In this abridged, Treasure of Illustrated Classics version, kids can travel with Verne's characters from Iceland to the Earth's core and back up again, through a volcano.
• There's a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story by Gary Larson
  Ages 10 and up. 64 pages. From the creator of The Far Side cartoons come a slightly irreverent story about ecology told from an worthworm's point of view.

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Books About Fossils

• Dinosaurs Of Waterhouse Hawkins Barbara Kerley
  Ages 4-8. 56 pages. An award-winning picturebook that chronicles the life of the man who first created dinosaur models for museums.
• The Mystery of the Missing Dinosaurs (Real Kids, Real Places) by Carole Marsh
  Ages 9-12. 150 pages. A mystery of missing dinosaur bones at Chicago's Field Museum.
• Smithsonian Natural History by DK Publishing
  Ages 10 and up. 648 pages. More than just about rocks, minerals, and fossils; this book is a visual encyclopedia of natural history.

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Books About Dinosaurs

• The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole
  Ages 4-8. 48 pages. A read-aloud picture book that travels back in time with Ms. Frizzle to Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods to look for a Maiasaura nesting ground.
• The Magic School Bus Flies with the Dinosaurs (Level 2 Reader) by Martin Schwabacher
  Ages 4-8. 32 pages. Explore the concepts of cladistics and how dinosaurs are related to birds.
• Dinosaur Detectives MSB Chapter by Judith Bauer Stamper
  Ages 4-8. 96 pages. Join the Magic School Bus class in chapter book format as they travel through time and come face-to-face with a killer dinosaur.
• Dinosaurs (Magic Tree House Research Guide) by Will Osborne
  Ages 4-8. 48 pages. The companion research guide to the 1st book in the popular Magic Treehouse series, Dinosaurs Before Dark.

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