Heos, Bridget Stronger Than Steel: Spider DNA and the Quest
for Better Bulletproff Vests, Sutures, and Parachute Rope, 75 p. Houghton
Mifflin, 2013. $19. Content: G.
NON-FICTION.
Spiders are creepy
and fascinating all at once. Humans have
admired their beautiful webs, while being freaked out by their buggy-crawliness
simultaneously. Scientists, on the other
hand, admire the strength and other properties of spider silk. Getting an abundant quantity of spider silk
is a daunting prospect, however and scientists have developed unique (odd?)
ways to increase the world’s supply of the material. How about goats?
This is the weirdest, but still fascinating,
addition to the Scientists in the Field series.
It is still really well written and I think that boys in particular will
engage with it. I still think this
entire series should be in the collection of every elementary and middle school
in the country.
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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