Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
Your Money and the World: How to Spend, Save, Donate and Invest Sustainably
by Cecile Biccari (Author) and Naïade Lacolomb (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Nora finds a treasure and wonders what she should do with it: spend, invest, donate or save? After she explores each option in a comic, the book for ages 7-11 explains each choice in more detail.
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Earth: Our Home Planet
by Bruce Betts (Author)
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Booktalk: The third planet from the Sun, Earth is our home and the only planet we know of that holds life. Learn how Earth and the Moon orbit the Sun together, how continents form, and how the atmosphere protects. Then learn how satellites show us how Earth will change in the future.
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How to Fool Your Parents: 25 Brain-Breaking Magic Tricks
by David Kwong (Author) and Michael Korfhage (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: This magic book is for the digital generation, giving kids all the tools they need to create, explore, and experiment—whether they’re making magic with a deck of cards or on their smartphone.
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Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Ágnes Keleti
by Deborah Bodin Cohen (Author), Kerry Olitzky (Author), and Martina Peluso (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Doing gymnastics, Ágnes Keleti feels free-until the day her coach tells her there’s a new law in Hungary barring Jewish athletes from the gym. Once Germany sends soldiers into Budapest, they are impossible to ignore and Ágnes hatches a plan. With identity papers from a Christian woman, she goes into hiding in a small farming village. She does housework for a family who support the Nazis, but she never stops dreaming of the day she will be able to compete at the Olympics.
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Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail
by Niña Mata (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Learn about forty amazing Asian American women who have changed the course of history in this middle grade book. Readers will meet: Mary Tape · Umpeylia “Sugar Pie” DeSanto · Susan Ahn Cuddy · Sunisa “Suni” Lee · Zarina Hashmi · Cristeta Comerford · Anna May Wong · Grace Lee Boggs · Christine Ha · Kimora Lee Simmons · Vicki Manalo Draves · Amy Tan · Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu · Tammy Duckworth · Lucy Liu · Gyo Fujikawa · Kalpana Chawla · Helen Zia · Ny Sou Okon · Vera Wang · Geena Rocero · Patsy Mink · Gabriella Wilson (H.E.R.) · Dr. Erika Lee · Chloe Kim · Margaret Cho · Maya Lin · Yuri Kochiyama · Kristi Yamaguchi · Tye Leung Schulze · Ali Wong · Dr. Kazue Togasaki · Merritt Moore · Nicole Ponseca · Miyoshi Umeki · Joy Cho · Dorothy Toy · Ruby Ibarra · Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee · Kamala Harris
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The St. Patrick’s Day Alphabet
by Liz Saunders (Author) and Lindsay Dale-Scott (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this picture book introduction to all things Irish as you hunt for the leprechauns hiding throughout the book.
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Rebel Girls Rock: 25 Tales of Women in Music
by Harriet Webster, Jess Harriton, Sarah Glenn Marsh, and Sydnee Monday (Authors)
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Booktalk: From Lizzo to Olivia Rodrigo, this collection features 25 tales of talented women who have rocked the world with their music. Each mini biography is paired with full-page portrait. The book also includes a foreword by iconic rocker Joan Jett and activities curated by Gibson Guitars.
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Janie Writes a Play: Jane Yolen’s First Great Story
by Heidi E. Y. Stemple (Author) and Madelyn Goodnight (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Janie Yolen loves to read, write, dance, and sing. So when her teacher announces Janie’s elementary class will perform a play, Janie is thrilled. There’s just one problem . . . the play is boring. With the support of her teacher and classmates, Janie rewrites the play, resulting in a hit class musical.
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Spotlight on Stepping (Just Dance)
by Mel Hammond (Author)
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Booktalk: Get ready to stomp, step, and clap! Discover stepping from its beginnings in Black communities to how people perform and celebrate this type of dance today. Then try it yourself!
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Stokes: The Brief Career of the NBA’s First Black Superstar
by Ty Chapman (Author), John Coy (Author), Lonnie Ollivierre (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: In a 1958 game against the Minneapolis Lakers, Stokes, went down hard and hit his head, losing consciousness. At the time, there was no concussion protocol, and Stokes went back into the game. A few days later, he went into a coma and woke up unable to move his body from the neck down. Players did not have any sort of financial support in situations like this, and Stokes’s teammate Jack Twyman worked with other players and Milton Kutsher to put on a benefit game during the summer at Kutsher’s hotel in the Catskills. This game became an annual tradition, and Stokes was eventually able to travel and watch the game.
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