9 Book Lists and Read-Alouds

Bang, Molly. 2018. When Sophie Thinks She Can’t. New York: Blue Sky Press.

Bardoe, Cheryl. 2018. Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakeable Mathematician Sophie Germain. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 

Barton, Bethany. 2019. I’m Trying to Love Math. Toronto: Viking Books for Young Readers. 

Berne, Jennifer. 2013. On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Colgan, Lynda. 2011. Mathemagic!: Number Tricks. Toronto: Kids Can Press.

Fisher, Lalena. 2023. Friends Beyond Measure. New York: Harper.

Lasky, Kathryn. 1994. The Librarian Who Measured the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown.

Lasky, Kathryn. 1997. The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Lasky, Kathryn. 2003. The Man Who Made Time Travel. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.

Lubar, David. 2014. Numbed. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. 1994. Dear Benjamin Banneker. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Reimer, Luetta, & Wilbert Reimer. 1990. Mathematicians are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians. Volume I. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Reimer, Luetta, & Wilbert Reimer. 1993. Mathematicians are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians. Volume II. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Schnitzlein, Danny. 2007. The Monster Who Did My Math. Atlanta: Peachtree. 

Scieszka, Jon. 1995. Math Curse. New York: Viking.

Thimmesh, Catherine. 2000. Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Inventions by Women. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Thimmesh, Catherine. 2002. The Sky’s the Limit: Stories of Discovery by Women and Girls. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Wyatt, Valerie. 2000. The Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count. Toronto: Kids Can Press.

There are always more!  A great place to look is the Mathical Book Prize List, check it out here: Mathical Book Prize – Home Page