"A playful field guide for natural scientists and curious observers of the world right under our noses"--Back cover.

"Yara is out to prove that she's the greatest scientist in town! Her annoying neighbor, Eddie, always wins the Science Fair, but this year is going to be her year. Like every good scientist, Yara starts with a question, makes observations, and comes up with a hypothesis... but each time she starts an experiment, her dog, Renzo, ruins it! Could Renzo be up to something more than making trouble?" -- Inside jacket.

"Rylee Swanson is beginning eighth grade with zero friends. A humiliating moment at the end-of-seventh-grade pool party involving a cannonball, a waterlogged updo, and some disappearing clothes has Rylee halfway convinced she's better off without any friends--at least friends like those. The one question Rylee can't shake is . . . why? When a group assignment in journalism pairs Rylee with science geek DeNia Alonso, DeNia's annoyingly know-it-all,...