Middle schooler Natalie's year-long assignment to answer a question using the scientific method leads to truths about her mother's depression and her own cultural identity.

"Charlotte, a serious scientist and a bunny, uses the scientific method to solve her problem: being squished by her many brothers and sisters"--

"Olga's beloved companion, Meh, is now a mom! She has a litter of adorable babies that look like spring rolls. But the babies aren't just adorable--they're a handful! How can Olga stop them from covering her house in rainbow poop if she's busy making sure they're fed?"--Amazon.com

Eight-year-old Ada Lace is determined to win the robot-building competition but is struggling with her art class so she soon wonders if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems.

"Travelling through the pages of The Three Little Pigs, Mother Goose's great-niece Professor Goose fact-checks, exposes flaws and explains the science, in this engaging and educational fractured fairy tale filled with jokes and funny illustrations"--

Acadia Greene, who always has questions ready for anything, uses the scientific method to investigate meteors, identify signs of the changing seasons, and examine mass extinctions.

The class project is to use the scientific process to see which team can grow the tallest bean sprouts, but Rosie has a problem--the new kid at her table, Jack, will not acknowledge her at all, and that makes teamwork difficult.

Acadia Greene is at it again. In the summer she used science to figure out who was raiding her blueberry bushes. Now she's leading a campaign to clean up a local pond; figuring out why leaves change color; learning about time zones and germs; and discovering why we might all be drinking dinosaur pee. "Conduct an experiment, " her parents tell her whenever she has a new mystery to solve. "Use the scientific method." So Acadia does science. And so can...

Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and...

"Science is how we understand the world. Yet critical flaws in peer review, statistical methods, and publication procedures have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless-or worse, badly misleading. Drawing on surprising new data from "meta-science" (the science of how science works), Science Fictions documents the errors that have distorted our knowledge on issues as varied as cancer biology, nutrition, genetics, immigration, education,...