Extreme Biology by Dan Green

Basher Science has a great series of books on science topics like chemistry and physics.  They are good for kids that think science is boring (which is not by any means true!).  They capture your eye with the spunky characters that play out different pieces in the books.  For instance, in Extreme Biology, stuff like nano-medicine is a bunch of little people with briefcases inside a needle.  The characters themselves are hilarious as they describe themselves, their personalities and their scientific aspects.  You will be learning without even knowing it!

This particular book is about, naturally, Extreme Biology.  Characters like the "the humane genome code" and "cloning" explain the science behind them with pizzazz.  It is divided up into different sections like Hard Core Herd and Gene Genies.  This book is full of illustrations of what the science "characters" might look like in real life.  For instance, Gene Splicing is a guy with a giant pair of scissors.  The writing can also be funny. They define DNA as "the strange stuff that looks like snot and is crammed into every cell in your body".

I have read most of the books in their science series and have gained an immense amount of knowledge (and jokes!) from them.  I liked every single one of them.  I have read Astronomy, Physics, Rocks & Minerals, and Periodic Table.  Once you have read one of these books you will want to read them all.  Thankfully, they keep coming out with new ones all the time.