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Written By Laurie Wallmark and Illustrated by Katy Wu

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Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor

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Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor

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Grade Level: 4th grade
NGSS Standard Alignment:
- 4.ETS2.1

Hedy Lamarr was a glamorous movie star according to her many adoring fans. But Miss Lamarr leads a double life; in secret, Hedy Lamarr was a brilliant inventor. She is credited with developing the communications system during WWII, which still remains essential to this day!

This book aligns with "The House that Lou Built" by highlighting women in STEM (pg.2), the theme of underestimation (pg.166), determination (pg.90), and living a secret life (pg. 52-53). Lou is a young female secretly working on a building project, and so is Hedy Lamarr. Many people in the books underestimate them due to their careers, gender, and age.

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Written and Illustrated by Chris Van Dusen

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Grade Level: Third Grade, Fourth Grade, and Fifth Grade
NGSS Standard Alignment:
- 3.ETS1.1
- 3.ETS1.2
- 4.ETS1.1
- 5.ETS1.1

This whacky book follows a young boy through his imagination as he thinks up the most incredible designs for his dream house. Some of his ideas are practical, while others are eccentric and creative! Encouraging readers to dream-up incredible inventions and designs, and to inspire little engineers.

This book aligns with "The House that Lou Built" by highlighting planning and designing (pg. 11), eccentric designs (pg. 78), and innovative aspect, such as indoor race track, flying rooms, and compostable toilets (pg. 11, 12). Lou and Jack both exhibit imagination and creativity as they think up their dream homes.

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Written by Katey Howes and Illustrated by Elizabet Vuković

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

We can make a lot of things, but how many of these things can we make in a day? This story follows a girl as she engages the reader in a discussion about the things that we make and how they can make a difference in the world. This book also expands on the engineering side of making things and also the social aspect of making things, such as making friends.

This book aligns with “The house that Lou Built” by engaging readers in discussions about engineering, building, and creativity (pg. 13 & 73). This book also connects to Lou by highlighting making friends (pg.63 & 225) and getting out of the house and off of technology to play (pg. 73).

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Written By Steve Jenkins and Illustrated by Robbin Gourley

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A House in the Sky: and Other Uncommon Animal Homes

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A House in the Sky: and Other Uncommon Animal Homes

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Grade Level: Third Grade
NGSS Standard Alignment:
- 3.LS4.1
- 3.LS4.2
- 3. LS2.1
- 3. ESS3.1

Animals are just like us, they need homes too! And just like people, some animals have very uncommon homes in some pretty unusual places. Follow this journey as we look at different animals and their homes.

This book aligns with "The House that Lou Built" by showcasing the different types of homes and animals can live in. Just like Lou as she researches and discovers different types of homes to find which one would be best for her land. Lou looks at a houseboat (pg. 63), a tiny house (pg. 73), the painted ladies in San Francisco (pg. 1), and Mr.Keller's unique home (pg. 78).

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Written and Illustrated by Rachel Dougherty

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Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge

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Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge

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Grade Level: Second Grade and Fourth Grade
NGSS Standard Alignment:
- 2.ETS2.2
- 4.ETS2.1
- 4.ESS3.2

Emily Roebling is not an engineer, or at least that is what other people in 1883 believe. Emily's husband was the chief engineer of the Brooklyn bridge, utilizing new techniques and engineering feats. During the construction of the bridge, her husband becomes extremely ill and ends up bedridden for the remainder of the work. Emily utilizes the knowledge she learns from her husband to supervise the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, helping to construct such an iconic landmark.

This book aligns with "The House that Lou Built" by highlighting women in STEM (pg. 2), working on a secret project (pg.52-53), highlighting different engineering feats (pg.51), and taking your life into your own hands (pg. 164). Throughout the book, Lou ventures to different iconic landmarks such as the Golden Gate bridge and Emily builds the iconic Brooklyn bridge. Both women go through a journey to learn and apply the engineering process to projects that many people believe they cannot achieve.

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Written by Andrea Beaty and Illustrated by David Roberts

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

Rosie lives a double life. During the day she is a quiet young girl, but by night she's a brilliant inventor coming up with different ideas and dreaming of becoming an engineer. Once her aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes to visit, Rosie works hard to make her aunt's dream of flying come true. Rosie embarks on a journey through a growth mindset and learns that the only way to truly fail is if you quit.

This book aligns with “The House that Lou Built” by exploring the growth mindset. Even though both of their inventions do not turn out at the end (pg. 198), both girls walk away having learned lessons (pg. 226) and become determined to try again (pg.227).

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Written by Trang Nguyễñ and Illustrated by Jeet Zdung

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Grade Level: Third Grade and Fourth Grade
NGSS Standard Alignment:
- 3.ESS3.1
- 3.LS2.1
- 3.LS4.1
- 3.LS4.2
- 4.LS2.3
- 4.ESS3.2

This book follows a young conservationist, Chang, in her mission to free the sun bear to its natural habitat and stop the bear bile farm near her home in Vietnam. Chang teaches herself survival skills through research and documentation, to finally be accepted as a rescue volunteer. Chang is tasked with returning Sorya the Sun Bear back to her habitat in the wild.

This book aligns with "The House that Lou Built" by showing a young girl with determination (pg. 90), beating the odds and proving others wrong (pg. 166), and utilizing the research step within the engineering model to gain knowledge to achieve their goals and dreams (pg. 63, 73, and 78). Both Chang and Lou are determined to achieve their goals and work hard to achieve those goals, utilizing STEM and other engineering steps to achieve them.

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Written by Tenille Bettenhausen and Illustrated by Ira Baykovska

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

Possibility is all around us, and this book highlights the many different possibilities that you could have in your future. This book is not just about becoming an architect, but it is about exploring the design and construction that goes into architecture. This book inspires students and shows them that there is no possibility that they cannot reach.

This book aligns with “The house that Lou Built” by Exploring all the different aspects of becoming an architect, just like Lou is exploring all the different aspects of building her house (pg. 124).

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Written by Julia Finley Mosca and Illustrated by Daniel Rieley

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The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr.Temple Grandin

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The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr.Temple Grandin

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

-       4.ETS2.1

Dr. Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism when she was a young girl. No one believed that could become one of the most influential voices in science. But her determination and her use of visual thinking helped her achieve that goal, And she created inventions to improve farms around the world.

This book aligns with “The House that Lou Built” by exploring a story of a female in STEM (pg. 2), who is determined (pg. 90) to view science through her own perspective. Both girls view their dreams through different lenses than the people around them, proving the doubters wrong (pg. 166).

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Written by Kobi Yamada and Illustrated by Mae Besom

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

This story follows an idea. This idea is brought to the world by a child, but as the child's confidence grows the idea grows. In this book tells students that no idea is too big, or too odd, or too difficult. Even when it seems that your idea is not going to happen, it may just be the beginning.

This book aligns with “The House that Lou Built” by highlighting a young person with an idea, and their determination to see their idea come to fruition (pg. 90). Lou has and imagination that aids her idea of her tiny house (pg. 11 & 13), She comes up with many different aspects and ideas of her tiny house that she wants to implement. But just like the child in the “What Do You Do With An Idea”, Lou is giving her idea time to grow instead of rushing it.

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

From a young age, Violet Van Winkle can tinker with any appliance in the house and build elaborate machines and contraptions. Many of her fellow students tease her, but she doesn't let that affect her. Violet decides to compete in the upcoming air show, and maybe win the respect of her fellow peers.

This book aligns with “The House that Lou Built” by in the beginning of the book, a few of loose classmates make fun of her for her expansive imagination (pg.13). But Lou looks past all this and continues to work towards her goals of building her tiny house. In the end, all those people who doubted her end up becoming her biggest supporters (pg. 206).

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Written and Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully

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Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

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Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

Mattie, or “The Lady Edison”, this 12-year-old girl armed with her sketchbook and her father's toolbox. This amazing inventor at a very young age designed a metal guard to prevent textile looms from injuring workers. After this she invented the machine that makes the paper bags that we use today. When a man challenges her claim this invention, she proves him wrong and that it is in fact her invention.

This book aligns with “The house that Lou Built” by highlighting a determined (pg. 90) woman in STEM (pg. 2). Lou and Mattie both experienced people underestimating them as they pursue their dreams of inventing and building a tiny home (pg. 166). Both girls are put in positions where their dreams and ideas are threatened by other people’s underestimation and greed (pg. 164).

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Written by Darcy Pattison and Illustrated by John Joven

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

-       4.ETS2.1

The gingerbread fair is open, and teams of children are baking building and decorating they're gingerbread houses in the hopes that they will win. But the gingerbread houses have guidelines, the winning house must stand upright on its own and a gingerbread boy and girl must fit inside the house. This story follows a team as they struggle to create the perfect gingerbread house. This book is a great example that sometimes our prototypes do not end out as we had hoped. But that we can always overcome our problems, plan, and try again.

This book aligns with “The House that Lou Built” by Even though both houses gingerbread and tiny house do not turn out in the end (pg. 198 & 206), Both characters are determined (pg. 90) to try again and not give up on their ideas. Both books showed the testing process, and how sometimes the first idea you have may not turn out, but that is not reason to give up.

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Written by Ryan Ann Hunter and Illustrated by Edward Miller

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

This colorful book discusses all the different kinds of bridges that have been invented and that we use today. Bridges are an engineering feat, and there are some pretty iconic bridges around the world today!

This book aligns with “The house that Lou Built” by highlighting the different engineering styles of bridges, such is the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge (pg. 52). Lou travels around San Francisco researching and studying different styles of houses, but during this research she is in awe at the different architectural and engineering feats that surround her (pg. 78, 63, & 1).

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Written by Eve Bunting and Illustrated by C.F. Payne

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Grade Level: Fourth Grade

NGSS Standard Alignment:

- 4.ETS2.1

Robert is a young boy living in San Francisco with his father. His father is building the impossible bridge, the golden gate bridge. Robert's father is a Skywalker, one of the high climbing iron workers. Robert and his father learned throughout this journey that it takes an entire team to accomplish the impossible.

This book aligns with “The house that Lou Built” by highlighting teamwork and supporting each other (pg. 200). As well as being set in the city of San Francisco, building the impossible bridge that many said would never be built (pg. 52).