Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
Superfast Stock Car Racing (Extreme Speed)
by Beth Bence Reinke (Author)
Booktalk: Enter the thrilling world of stock car racing! Discover the history of stock car racing, what a typical race day looks like, who the hottest racers are, and more.
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50 Things You Didn’t Know about Colonial America
by Sean O’Neill (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: Discover some of the most amazing and amusing facts about life in Colonial America and how they survived it all.
Snippet: 38 Before becoming father of our country, thirteen-year-old George Washington wrote “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company.” One rule: “In the presence of others, sing not to yourself, nor drum your fingers or feet.”
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Joel Embiid (Sports All-Stars)
by Jon M. Fishman (Author)
Booktalk: Center Joel Embiid racks up points for the Philadelphia 76ers. Readers will learn how this All-Star National Basketball Association (NBA) player stays at the top of his game and how he spends his time off the court.
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Wilma Rudolph: Fastest Woman on Earth
by Jeri Cipriano (Author) and Scott R. Brooks (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Wilma Rudolph wanted to run and jump like other children, but she had a serious disease that kept her leg from growing well. She did not give up and went on to one day win Olympic gold medals.
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The Life of Ruby Bridges
by Elizabeth Raum (Author)
Booktalk: From Ruby Bridges’s early life through her first steps in an integrated school and her struggles against racism, this biography for elementary readers outlines key dates throughout this change maker’s life.
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Sloane Stephens (Sports All-Stars)
by Jon M. Fishman (Author)
Booktalk: All-court tennis phenom Sloane Stephens is ranked fourth in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) with six singles titles and one US Open Championship. Read all about this WTA superstar!
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Draw Silly Superheroes!
by Luke Colins (Author) and Catherine Cates (Illustrator)
Booktalk: From putting food on human legs to silly bobblehead creations, step-by-step instructions and images will guide readers to create their own silly sketches.
Snippet: To be a silly sketcher, all you need is a pencil, some paper, and a funny bone. Draw a square here. Add some big hair there. Just follow the steps. You’ll have super art in no time.
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To Dance: Special Edition
by Siena Cherson Siegel (Author) and Mark Siegel (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six–and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance classes at the School of American Ballet, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet while working with ballet legend George Balanchine.
Part family history, part backstage drama, this updated graphic memoir with a brand-new scrapbook of Siena’s mementoes is a firsthand look a young dancer’s beginnings.
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Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
by Shana Keller (Author) and Kayla Stark (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Frederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questions might have eluded him but Douglass did know for certain that learning to read and to write would be the first step in his quest for freedom and his fight for equality.
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Figure Skating
by Mari Schuh (Author)
Booktalk: This search-and-find book invites early readers to look for new vocabulary words and picture details while offering simple facts about figure skating competition.
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