Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
Breakthroughs in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
by Karen Latchana Kenney (Author)
Booktalk: From exoplanets to rocks on Mars and radio waves to infrared telescopes, learn about signs of life in the universe.
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Susan B. Anthony: The Making of America
by Teri Kanefield (Author)
Booktalk: America’s famous suffragette Susan B. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, “people” were understood to be white and male. Women were expected to stay out of public life and debates. Anthony began her public career as a radical abolitionist, and after the Civil War, she became an international figurehead of the women’s suffrage movement.
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Make Your Own Pixel Art: Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More!
by Jennifer Dawe (Author) and Matthew Humphries (Author)
Booktalk: Draw digitally using a keyboard and mouse. Walk step-by-step through the available tools, learn pixel art techniques and the importance of shapes, colors, shading. Turn your art into animation!
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The Apollo Missions for Kids: The People and Engineering Behind the Race to the Moon, with 21 Activities
by Jerome Pohlen (Author)
Booktalk: In addition to learning about ALL of the Apollo missions, readers can prepare for #Apollo50 next month with these 21 hands-on activities, that include:
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Moongazing
First, locate Tycho, the large white crater on the lunar map above. This will help you determine north and south. The full moon will appear to be lying on its left side if you look at it just after sundown and on its right side just before sunrise. Also, if you look at moon with a telescope, everything will be inverted–upside down–or mirrored left to right.
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Deep in the Ocean
by Lucie Brunellière (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: Dive into the ocean with a submarine for an amazing underwater adventure in this oversized board book! As you turn the pages, listen to whales singing and icebergs creaking, dolphins splashing and waves crashing in the ten-minute soundtrack.
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O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
by Robert Burleigh (Author)and Sterling Hundley (Illustrator)
Booktalk: The story of one of America’s greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America’s greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Though the two men never met, Whitman would often see Lincoln’s carriage on the road. The president was never far from the poet’s mind, and Lincoln’s “grace under pressure” was something Whitman returned to again and again in his poetry. Whitman witnessed Lincoln’s second inauguration and mourned along with America as Lincoln’s funeral train wound its way across the landscape to his final resting place. The book includes the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” and an excerpt from “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” brief bios of Lincoln and Whitman, a timeline of Civil War events, endnotes, and a bibliography.
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Working in Space
by Ellen Lawrence (Author)
Booktalk: How does it feel to work in zero gravity in a laboratory more than 200 miles above Earth? What kinds of experiments do astronauts carry out aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? And how does it feel to step out of the space station into the darkness of space? Discover the answers to all these questions and many more fascinating facts about working in space.
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Rocket to the Moon!: Big Ideas that Changed the World
by Don Brown (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasn’t just one man who got us to the moon. See the history of rocket building: from ancient Chinese rockets, to “bombs bursting in air” during the War of 1812, to Russia’s Sputnik program, to the moon landing.
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