Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
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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Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution (Graphic Science Biographies)
by Jordi Bayarri (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: From his childhood in England to his pivotal ocean voyages, Charles Darwin took every opportunity to study the natural world. And he helped shape a new understanding of how life forms change over time. This graphic biography highlights Darwin’s youthful push to become a naturalist―against the wishes of his stern father. It also shares a look at his field research, collaborations, and scientific breakthroughs.
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Once Upon a Fairy Tale Craft
by Annalees Lim (Author) and Supriya Sahai (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Transform your home into a fairy tale kingdom with more than twenty craft ideas. Readers can make a mermaid tail, frog prince treats, jeweled goblets, and more fairy tale-inspired creations with the help of simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations.
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Moth: An Evolution Story
by Isabel Thomas (Author) and Daniel Egnéus (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Against a lush backdrop of lichen-covered trees, the peppered moth lies hidden. Until the world begins to change…
Along come people with their magnificent machines which stain the land with soot. In a beautiful landscape changed by humans how will one little moth survive?
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Spies, Lies, and Disguise: The Daring Tricks and Deeds that Won World War II
by Jennifer Swanson (Author) amd Kevin O’Malley (Illustrator)
Booktalk: In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, less than twenty years after the first World War had ended. No one could quite believe it. And no one wanted it. The leaders of every country involved were left with no choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could.
That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies. Poison the cattle that the Germans eat? Deliberately float a corpse dressed up as a spy across the water to have it wash up on Germany’s shore? Create a unit of top secret commandos with a license to kill? These were all real tactics attempted with the ultimate goal of defeating Hitler. In this off-center look at history, readers will be captivated by the classified and covert efforts made by each side as they tried to gain the upper hand and win the war. Restricted access is lifted to give the reader a peek into the top secret operations of the daring men and women who fought the war under a cloak of secrecy.
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PRIVATE PENS
Roald Dahl, British spy? Yep? That is correct. Before Dahl became the award-winning children’s author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda, he was a British secret agent. His mission? To hobnob with the American president, vice president, and other American dignitaries to get them to commit to entering the war.
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