Best Science & Nature Books for 2nd Grade

Second graders, ages seven and eight, can explore everything from hummingbirds to outer space on this page. Lynn Brunelle's Life After Whale, a Sibert Medal winner, follows the body of a blue whale as it feeds a whole deep-sea community, and Space: The Final Pooping Frontier explains, with plenty of jokes, how astronauts manage the bathroom in zero gravity. A picture book biography of Cherokee engineer Mary Golda Ross adds a look at science as a career.