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Building & Engineering Books for Kids – Wonderlit | Wonderlit
339 books about building & engineering
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0–2
3–5
6–8
9–12
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All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
Christina Soontornvat
Twelve soccer players and their coach are trapped by floodwaters deep inside a Thai cave, sparking a massive, high-stake
Ages 10–14
The Day I Learned to Fly
Eliza Northwood
Sixteen-year-old Rae Lin hates heights, but joining her school's Soar Lab forces her to face her fears alongside new fri
Ages 12–18
Max Axiom and the Society of Super Scientists
Returning to the Moon
Bruce Berglund
Join the Society of Super Scientists in this graphic novel to see how NASA plans to build a permanent home for humans on
Ages 8–14
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The Agency #2
The Body at the Tower
Y. S. Lee
Disguised as a poor boy on a Victorian construction site, undercover agent Mary Quinn hunts a murderer while confronting
Ages 12–17
Shadows of Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow
Lila Thompson
Sixteen-year-old designer Nova Harper attempts to build a new future in her small town while stepping out from the shado
Ages 12–18
Spy History #3
Secret Soldiers
Paul B. Janeczko
Artists and actors use inflatable tanks and sonic illusions to outsmart the Nazis in this true story of the Ghost Army's
Ages 10–14
A Series of Unfortunate Events #12
The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket
The Baudelaire orphans face harpoon guns, unsavory curry, and a notorious villain in this penultimate chapter of misery
Ages 9–13
The Imitation Game
Jane Rollason
Cryptanalyst Alan Turing and his brilliant team race against the clock to crack the impossible Enigma Code and change th
Ages 10–14
The Agency #3
The Traitor in the Tunnel
Y. S. Lee
Undercover in Buckingham Palace, Mary Quinn must catch a thief and solve a murder while uncovering a secret tunnel that
Ages 12–17
The Map to Myself
Eliza Northwood
Kira avoids crowds by mapping safe routes until a mysterious compass leads her to forgotten canals, new friends, and the
Ages 12–17
Ghost Stories
Beneath the Haunted Bridge
Lila Hawthorne
Sixteen-year-old Mara hears her late brother’s melody under a bridge, leading her to uncover ghostly clues and staged ac
Ages 12–18
Max Axiom, Super Scientist
A Crash Course in Forces and Motion
Emily Sohn
Max Axiom powers through the laws of physics, using a comic book mission to explain how forces and motion work in our ev
Ages 8–14
The Night War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Jewish twelve-year-old Miriam hides at a French boarding school in 1942, until a midnight mission gives her a chance to
Ages 9–13
The Book of Daring Experiments #3
The Book of Ingeniously Daring Chemistry
Sean Connolly
Turn your kitchen into a lab with over 20 experiments, from building hydrogen atoms with string to powering a clock with
Ages 9–13
The Green Glass Sea #1
The Green Glass Sea
Ellen Klages
Dewey travels across the country by train in 1943 to find her father, only to discover he is working on a top-secret gov
Ages 10–14
Hidden Systems
Dan Nott
Vibrant diagrams and maps reveal the surprising history of the internet, electricity, and water systems that modern life
Ages 10–18
Airman
Eoin Colfer
Framed for a crime and locked in a seaside dungeon, fourteen-year-old Conor must master the impossible art of flight to
Ages 11–15
The Longitude Prize
Joan Dash
John Harrison spent forty years obsessed with a single problem: building a clock that could keep perfect time at sea to
Ages 10–14
Have Space Suit - Will Travel
Robert A. Heinlein
Winning a used spacesuit in a soap jingle contest leads a determined teenager on an unexpected journey across the galaxy
Ages 12–18
The Stronghold
Mollie Hunter
Coll was injured in a Roman raid, but he spends years designing a revolutionary defense system that could finally save h
Ages 11–15
The S.Q.U.I.D. Squad #5
Journey to the Ocean's End
Megan Miller
A post-Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts attempts the impossible: building an enormous space gun to launch three
Ages 10–18
Survival Stories #2
Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission
David Long
For the child who needs to see that even the most impossible problems can be solved through calm thinking, grit, and a l
Ages 12–18
Handles
Jan Mark
Erica leaves her dull relatives behind to spend a summer in the Norfolk countryside, where she finds freedom in a local
Ages 10–14
David Macaulay's Illustrated Histories
Pyramid
David Macaulay
Ancient engineering comes to life through detailed diagrams showing exactly how the great pyramids were leveled, squared
Ages 8–14
