Nuts About Science

From IRA Childrens Book Award-winner, Michelle Houts, Lucy Saves Some Squirrels draws on STEM themes and is aligned with curriculum guidelines to bring a love of science to young readers, inspiring them to start their own labs and explore their world. On Lucys first day of second grade, shes excited to meet her new teacher, Miss Flippo, and find out everythings shes going to learn about this year in school. And when Miss Flippo tells the class that theyre going to have their very own science lab, complete with lab coats and goggles, Lucy cant wait to start exploring. But one thing is troubling her. The tree that sat outside her first-grade classroom all year is gone. Where are the squirrels going to live? Inspired by her classroom lab, Lucy starts her own research mission to find out what happened to the tree, and then to lobby for the school to plant a new one. With the help of her cousin, Cora, and their new classmates, Lucy discovers that science is everywhere you look, and a lab can be anywhere you look.