Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
Cinco de Mayo: A First Look
by Percy Leed (Author)
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Booktalk: In this beginning reader, children learn about Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that celebrates Mexican culture.
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One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth
by Nicola Davies (Author) and Jenni Desmond (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Our planet is always turning. It may be midnight in London, but in different time zones other living things are waking up, ready to hunt or feed or fight. As the clock strikes twelve, two sisters are spirited away on a journey to glimpse, in the span of a moment, extraordinary biodiversity: a mother polar bear and her cubs hunting seals in Svalbard, tiny turtles in India following the moon toward the sea, and enormous whale sharks gulping plankton in the Philippines.
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Inventions of the USA: A Shine-A-Light Book
by Carron Brown (Author) and Giordano Poloni (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Get your flashlight ready to meet American inventors and discover their inventions with this “shine-a-light” see-through-page format.
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Big Ideas from History: A History of the World for You
by The School of Life (Author) and Anna Doherty (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: This middle grade book is a big history of the world, from the beginnings of the universe to now, which places the reader at its center by encouraging children to think about how they experience the world and asking them to imagine a world they would like to live in. What might they learn from self-knowledge? How can they grow, develop and create their own place in history?
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