Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
Understanding How Laws Are Made
by Matt Bowers (Author)
Booktalk: Follow the sequence of events from idea to implementation and see how a law is made. A timeline supports each step in the process, from an idea for a new law through writing a bill, getting Congress to pass it and the president signing it.
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Highlights of the Indianapolis Colts
by Marysa Storm (Author)
Booktalk: Football is full of incredible stats. Explore those records visually in timelines, charts, graphs, and other infographics.
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1971 Super Bowl
In 1971, the Colts won its first Super Bowl. At first, it didn’t look like it’d win. The Dallas Cowboys led most of the game. But in the fourth quarter, the Colts tied it up. Then with only seconds left, kicker Jim O’Brien made a field goal.
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Bold Women in Nevada History
by Kay Moore (Author)
Booktalk: From Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute who worked as an interpreter, to Mary Fulstone, a rural doctor who traveled through heat, snow, and mud to deliver more than 4,000 babies during her career, to Felice Cohn, who became the fourth female attorney to practice law before the US Supreme Court, the fourteen women featured in this collection broke down barriers of sexism, racism, and political oppression to emerge as heroines of their own time.
Snippet: The Denver Post newspaper helped Velma’s cause when it sent Robert O’Brien to interview her and write an article that was published in Reader’s Digest in January 1958. “The Mustangs’ Last Stand” sold ten million copies a month, and thiryy-eight million people in the United States and around the world read about Velma. O’Brien introduced her as, “The most tireless, outspoken friend the mustangs ever had is Mrs. Velma B. Johnston. . . . She stands five foot six in her high-heeled riding boots and weighs a spunky 108 pounds. But her diminutive size has not kept her from waging a bitter battle for the country’s mustangs–so bitter in fact, that friends and opponents now refer to her as ‘Wild Horse Annie.'”
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What’s Inside a Computer Mouse?
by Arnold Ringstad (Author)
Booktalk: See all of the parts inside a computer mouse and find how they work together to make the mouse function.
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Soccer Superstar Alex Morgan
by Jon M. Fishman (Author)
Booktalk: For beginning readers who know about the 2019 Women’s World Cup, this short biography will provide more information about soccer superstar Alex Morgan. She helped the US Women’s National Team to victory in the 2012 Olympics and the 2015 Women’s World Cup.
The 2019 win isn’t in the book, giving you the opportunity to talk about how books change over time, a new concept for emerging readers.
Today is #WomensEqualityDay!
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We Go on a School Bus
by Joanne Mattern (Author)
Booktalk: Back to school means new experiences. One may be the first ride on a school bus. See what that is like in this Ways We Go book.
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Airplanes
by Wendy Strobel Dieker (Author)
Booktalk: This search-and-find book invites early readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about airplanes and how they fly.
Today is Orville Wright’s birthday, celebrated as National Aviation Day since FDR proclaimed it so in 1939.
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Mammals! (Explorer)
by Nick Forshaw (Author) and William Exley (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Be on the look-out for the wildest of mammals with Agent Osprey as she explores the animal kingdom in search of all things fierce and friendly! Inside the back cover is a six-foot-long fold-out timeline, featuring over 100 mammals from their first known forms to their living descendants that looks at how they have survived and thrived.
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Things Up Close
by Alice Boynton (Author)
Booktalk: View common objects–a pencil, sponge, toothbrush, and seashell–from a new perspective and learn uncommon facts about each one. (Bread was used as a eraser?!)
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I See the Ocean
by Katie Peters (Author)
Booktalk: Dive beneath the waves to meet the crab, fish, turtles, whales, and seaweed that live in the ocean habitat with this beginning reader.
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