Solids, Liquids, Guess Who's Got Gas?: Lucy's Lab #2

By Michelle Houts and Elizabeth Zechel

CHAPTER BOOK SERIES LAUNCH: Sky Pony's expanding our chapter book program with a new girl-driven, school-based series&mdash a perfect complement to Magic Treehouse.

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: Houts’s The Beef Princess of Practical County (Random House) won the IRA Children’s Book Award and was a finalist for the Buckeye Children’s Book Award. Winterfrost (Candlewick) was a JLG Selection and a Bank Street Best Book.

NEW AGE LEVEL FROM AN EDUCATOR FAVORITE: Houts’s previous middle grade and YA titles were issued in hardcover. We’re moving her down to chapter books, where we think her following combined with the drive for STEM content, will allow this new series to flourish.

GIRLS+SCIENCE=A WINNER: There’s a major national push to get girls interested in science and tech. Lucy’s Lab catches girls early, before studies show they're traditionally turned away from these fields.

BUILT FOR STEM!: Each book will focus on a different science topic. Houts has aligned the series with Common Core and curriculum standards for classroom inclusion.

First book in the series will release with Book 2, Solids, Liquids, Guess Who’s Got Gas, in August 2017. A third will follow in Fall 2017. Potential for more in the series. Publishing simultaneously in PB, HC and eBook editions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sky Pony Press
• Release date: Oct 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781510710696

Michelle Houts

Michelle Houts is the award-winning author of several middle-grade novels, picture books, and biographies for young readers including Winterfrost, which was a 2014 Bank Street Best Book and Junior Library Guild selection, and The Beef Princess of Practical County, which was awarded the 2010 IRA Children’s Book Award. She lives, works, and plays on a farm in western Ohio, where she is restoring a one-room schoolhouse. While in second grade, she begged her parents for a chemistry kit but wasn’t quite sure what to do when she actually got it. Lucy’s Lab allows her to be the scientist she always wanted to be.