Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
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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Football’s G.O.A.T.: Jim Brown, Tom Brady, and More
by Joe Levit (Author)
Booktalk: Prepare to tackle the toughest question in football: Who is the greatest of all time? See the evidence for yourself then learn how to research your own G.O.A.T. list.
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Make Your Own Scratch Games!
by Anna Anthropy (Author)
Booktalk: Learn to do everything from building a game map to creating animations and debugging the end product. Take a peek inside the history of video game design, learn programming basics, and turn your ideas into creative games that you can play and share with your friends. Covers Scratch 3.0
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BONUS! Download the source code for the games featured in the book.
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Along Came Coco: A Story about Coco Chanel
by Eva Byrne (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: In a time when children were meant to be seen and not heard, along came Coco, a small French orphan with an eye for style, a talent for sewing, and a big imagination. Coco grew up in an orphanage run by very strict nuns, but she wasn’t very good at following rules. At a time when girls were told to brush their hair 100 times until their arms were sore, Coco promised herself that one day she would snip away her locks so that she wouldn’t have to be so fussy–girls needed time for other things, and they needed some of the comforts that boys enjoyed. Why shouldn’t girls have pockets? And why did they have to wear corsets all the time?
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Discover Mars
by Georgia Beth (Author)
Booktalk: Mars is known as the red planet. Space programs have launched dozens of missions to explore Mars, and within the next few decades, they hope to send people to Mars!
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When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex
by Toni Buzzeo (Author) and Diana Sudyka (Illustrator)
Booktalk: From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue’s honor, Sue the T. rex would be placed on permanent exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
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An Owl at Sea
by Susan Vande Griek (Author) and Ian Wallace (Illustrator)
Booktalk: The true story of a Short-eared Owl that plummeted onto the deck of an oil rig in the North Sea, one hundred miles from shore told in a prose poem. Weak and tired, it huddled on the deck until riggers provided it with a makeshift shelter and fresh meat to eat. When a helicopter arrived to transport some of the workers back home, they took the owl with them, handing it over to the Scottish SPCA. A few weeks later the owl was strong enough to be released into the countryside. An author’s note includes information about the Short-eared Owl, a bird found in the Americas, Europe and Asia, whose numbers may be in decline due to loss of habitat.
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