Book cover for Search for a Mysterious Mushroom by Amy Seto Forrester and Andy Chou Musser. The cover is dark green with images connected by colorful arrows. Images include a rock climbing person, a frog, a jeep on a dirt road, a drone, a lion-tailed macaque, a DNA helix, and a cluster of delicate white mushrooms.
Book cover for Search for a Giant Squid by Amy Seto Forrester and Andy Chou Musser. The cover is black with images connected by colorful arrows. Images include a pilot at the controls of a submersible, a moon jelly, a submersible, a map of the ocean floor, six gill sharks, a chambered nautilus, and the tentacles of a giant squid.
Amy Seto Forrester and her brother Andy Chou Musser holding their book Search for a Giant Squid. Photo by Will Forrester.
Search for a Mysterious Mushroom (Science Explorers, Book 2)
Written by Amy Seto Forrester, illustrated by Andy Chou Musser
Chronicle Books. 1797213946. May 5, 2026 (pre-order now!)
Learn about mycology as you pick your path through three national parks around the world in search of a tiny fungus in the second book in the Science Explorers series. After picking your research assistant, special field gear, and expedition site, you’re off on an exciting adventure through remote tropical rainforests.
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Search for a Giant Squid (Science Explorers, Book 1)
Written by Amy Seto Forrester, illustrated by Andy Chou Musser
Chronicle Books. Hardcover, 9781797213934. April 25, 2023
Paperback, 9781797240770, April 7, 2026 (pre-order now!)
An exciting ocean-themed choose-your-path STEM adventure for emerging readers! Take a journey to the ocean's twilight zone in Search for a Giant Squid! An exciting mixture of fiction and nonfiction, this choose-your-own-adventure-style story allows readers to take on the mantle of a teuthologist looking for a giant squid in its natural habitat. Once readers pick their submersible, pilot, and dive site, the adventure begins!
★ “Immensely engaging, this reader packs an informational punch.” — Booklist, starred review
“An engaging, fun, and deep guide to how sea research happens.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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