Sheinkin, Steve. Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown. Roaring Brook Press: New York, 2021. This history of the Cold War reads like a novel (but you can’t [...]
Menéndez, Juliet. Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers. Henry Holt and Company: New York, 2021. Sure, we know about Frida Kahlo, Sonia Sotomayor, and Pura Belpré, but what about Sor Juana [...]
Jenkins, Steve. Animal Facts by the Numbers. Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers: New York, 2022. Jenkins’ last By the Numbers book, Animal Facts by the Numbers, can be [...]
Yang, Gene Luen. Dragon Hoops: From Small Steps to Great Leaps. First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press: New York, 2020. OK, so Dragon Hoops is neither strictly nonfiction, [...]
Herz, Henry. (Illus. Mercè López). I Am Smoke. Tilbury House Publishers: Thomaston, ME, 2021. Those of us who live in the Western U.S. probably associate smoke with fire season, but [...]
Jenkins, Steve and Robin Page. The Shark Book. Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt: New York, 2021. It may be Dolphin Awareness Month, but today we are looking at sharks! The Shark Book has [...]
Yelchin, Eugene. The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2021. There aren’t many memoirs for middle grade readers about growing up in [...]
Gutman, Dan (Illus. Allison Steinfeld). Teddy Roosevelt was a Moose? (Wait, What?). New York; Norton Young Readers, 2022. Ever read a nonfiction for kids that is supposed to be funny [...]
Buhrman-Deever, Susannah (illus. Matthew Trueman).If You Take Away the Otter. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2020. If You Take Away the Otter author Buhrman-Deever emphasizes the idea of balance in a [...]
Chin, Jason. Your Place in the Universe. New York: Holiday House, 2020. If you have kiddos that are interested in space, this is the book for them. Your Place in [...]
