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Science, Nature & How It Works (Children's Nonfiction, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Science, Nature & How It Works (Children's Nonfiction, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $6.99, median 103 reviews, average rating 4.2 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 32/100 (highly competitive).

32Opportunity / 100
$6.99Median price
103Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.99 – $10.99
Average rating4.2
New releases (90 days)3%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 12% of the parent category Children's Nonfiction (871), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Only 3% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 88% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.99 to $10.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Science, Nature & How It Works best sellers

  1. What If You Had Animal Teeth? (What If You Had... ?) book cover by Sandra Markle

    What If You Had Animal Teeth? (What If You Had... ?)

    by Sandra Markle

    • List rank#1
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,454

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  2. What If You Had An Animal Nose? (What If You Had... ?) book cover by Sandra Markle

    What If You Had An Animal Nose? (What If You Had... ?)

    by Sandra Markle

    • List rank#2
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.9
    • Reviews689

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  3. What If You Had Animal Hair? (What If You Had... ?) book cover by Sandra Markle

    What If You Had Animal Hair? (What If You Had... ?)

    by Sandra Markle

    • List rank#3
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,169

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  4. What If You Had Animal Ears? (What If You Had... ?) book cover by Sandra Markle

    What If You Had Animal Ears? (What If You Had... ?)

    by Sandra Markle

    • List rank#4
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews865

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  5. Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries (Top 10 Unexplained) book cover by Kathryn Clay

    Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries (Top 10 Unexplained)

    by Kathryn Clay

    • List rank#5
    • Price$8.79
    • Rating2.6
    • Reviews6

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  6. Top 10 Haunted Places (Top 10 Unexplained) book cover by Lori Polydoros

    Top 10 Haunted Places (Top 10 Unexplained)

    by Lori Polydoros

    • List rank#6
    • Price$8.79
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews1

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  7. First 100 Trucks And Things That Go: A padded book—perfect for little hands to hold book cover by Roger Priddy

    First 100 Trucks And Things That Go: A padded book—perfect for little hands to hold

    by Roger Priddy

    • List rank#7
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews4,257

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  8. Sharks (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 2) book cover by Anne Schreiber

    Sharks (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 2)

    by Anne Schreiber

    • List rank#8
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews2,828

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  9. Top 10 UFO and Alien Mysteries (Top 10 Unexplained) book cover by Lori Polydoros

    Top 10 UFO and Alien Mysteries (Top 10 Unexplained)

    by Lori Polydoros

    • List rank#9
    • Price$10.99
    • Rating3.0
    • Reviews1

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  10. The Worst Book in the Whole Entire World: A Seriously Silly Story for Kids (Worst World Wo book cover by Joey Acker

    The Worst Book in the Whole Entire World: A Seriously Silly Story for Kids (Worst World Works™)

    by Joey Acker

    • List rank#10
    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews2,161

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FAQ

Is Science, Nature & How It Works a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 32/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 103 reviews and sells for $6.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Science, Nature & How It Works?

The median best seller has 103 reviews, and 47% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Science, Nature & How It Works best sellers cost?

The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $10.99.

Can new books break into Science, Nature & How It Works?

3% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.

About this data

Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.