BOOKS TO NOTE: SCIENCE-BASED HISTORICAL FICTION AND NON-FICTION (for various ages)

A seamstress turned marine scientist in the 1800s pioneered the study of live animals instead of dead specimens while discovering astonishing actions of a tiny species of octopus. Her story is told here for young readers.

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE (cover for Swedish translation) A blind girl helps her father save something valuable from a museum where he works; just before they escape the Nazi invasion of where they live. Meanwhile a boy in a far-away town finds and tinkers with an interesting gadget he finds. How do these two young people become connected?!

A woman who will become a well-known American actress first finds herself in a unique position in Europe, a position in which she can help the Allies during WWII. After escaping to the U.S., she happens to invent something that is still useful in today’s society.