Non Fiction (Middle Grade)

 

Author

 

 

Michael Albert. An Artist's America [Fuse #8 Review]

Thomas B. Allen. George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War [Edge of the Forest Review]

Ann Alma. Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many People from the Nazis [The Well-Read Child Review]

George Ancona. Capoeira: Game! Dance! Martial Art!  [The Well-Read Child Review]

Kathi Appelt. Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky [Abby the Librarian Review]

Jennifer Armstrong (illustrations by Roger Roth). The American Story [The Edge of the Forest Review]

Bryn Barnard. Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History [Abby the Librarian review]

Fiona Bayrock (ill. Carolyn Conahan). Bubble Homes and Fish Farts [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

Nic Bishop. Frogs [Propernoun.net Review] 

Gary Blackwood. The Great Race: The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908 [Fuse #8 Review]

Tonya Bolden. George Washington Carver [Fuse #8 Review]

Ben Boos. Swords: An Artist's Devotion [Abby the Librarian Review]

Loree Griffin Burns. Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion [Fuse #8 Review]

Loree Griffin Burns. Tracking Trash: Flotmas, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion [Abby the Librarian Review]

Mary Kay Carson.  Emi and the Rhino Scientist [Abby the Librarian Review]

Barbara Cervone (ed.). In Our Village: Kambi ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth [Abby the Librarian review]

Cynthia Chin-Lee Amelia to Zora: Twenty Six Women Who Changed the World [cloudscome Review]

Bonnie Christenson. Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter [Propernoun Review]

Esme Raji Codell. Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade [bookshelves of doom Review]

Sneed B. Collard, III. Teeth [cloudscome Review]

Sneed B. Collard, III. Wings [cloudscome Review]

Penny Colman. Thanksgiving: The True Story [propernoun.net Review]

Penny Colman. Thanksgiving: The True Story [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

Penny Colman. Thanksgiving: The True Story [Fuse #8 Review]

Michael L. Cooper. Hero of the High Seas: John Paul Jones and the American Revolution [Fuse #8 Review]

Stephanie Stein Crease. Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities [Fuse #8 Review]

Joan Dash (ill. Dusan Petricic). A Dangerous Engine: Benjamin Franklin, From Scientist to Diplomat [Fuse #8 Review]

James H. Deem. Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii [Edge of the Forest Review]

Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon (ill. by Guy Francis). Blast From the Past: Ben Franklin's Fame [Big A little a Review]

Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D. Why Don't Your Eyelashes Grow? [Breeni Books]

Deborah Ellis.  Off to War: Voices of Soldiers' Children [Fuse #8 Review]

John Farndon. Do Not Open [Abby the Librarian Review]

John Fleischman. Black and White Airmen: Their True History [Fuse #8 Review]

Sid Fleischman. The Trouble Begins at 8 [Book Nut Review]

Sid Fleischman. The Trouble Begins at 8 [Abby the Librarian Review]

Candace Fleming. The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum [Fuse #8 Review]

Judith and Dennis Fradin. 5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery [Fuse #8 Review]

Russell Freedman. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott [Fuse #8 Review]

Jackie French (ill. Bruce Whatley). How to Scratch a Wombat [Fuse #8 Review]

E.H. Gombrich. A Little History of the World [Farm School Review]

Mark Gonyea. Another Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Bad [Fuse #8 Review]

Denise Grady. Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburg Fever to Avian Flu [Fuse #8 Review]

Dan Green (ill by Basher). Physics: Why Matter Matters [excelsior file Review]

Saul Griffith and Joost Bonsen. (ill. Nick Dragotta) Howtoons: The Possibilities are Endless [Fuse #8 Review]

Nadja Halilbegovich. My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

John Hargrave. M3: Sir John Hargrave's Mischief Maker's Manual [Fuse #8 Review]

Kelly Milner Halls. Albino Animals [Abby the Librarian]

Kelly Milner Halls. Mysteries of the Mummy Kids [Abby the Librarian review]

Laban Carrick Hill, Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance  [cloudscome Review]

Bell Hooks. Skin Again [cloudscome Review]

Deborah Hopkinson. Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America [Fuse #8 Review]

Ellen Jackson. The Mysterious Universe [Abby the Librarian Review]

Steve Jenkins. Living Color [propernoun.net Review]

Carla Joinson. Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker [Edge of the Forest Review]

Suzanne Jurmain. The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and her Students [Abby the Librarian Review]

Eric A. Kimmel (ill. Pep Montserrat). The McElderry Book of Greek Myths [Fuse #8 Review]

Katherine Kirkpatrick. The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter [Fuse #8 Review]

Klutz editors (John Cassidy and Nicholas Berger). Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic [excelsior file review]

Kathleen Krull (ill. Boris Kulikov). Isaac Newton (Giants of Science) [Fuse #8 Review]

Robert Lipsyte. Heroes of Baseball: The Men Who Made it America's Favorite Game [Fuse #8 Review]

Carla Killough McClafferty. Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium [Fuse #8 Review]

Karen McGhee and George McKay, Ph.D. Encyclopedia of Animals [Edge of the Forest Review]

Albert Marrin (ill. C.B. Mordan). Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People [Abby the Librarian Review]

Albert Marrin (ill. C.B. Mordan). Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People [Fuse #8 Review]

Albert Marrin. Saving the Buffalo [Fuse #8 Review]

H.E. Marshall. Our Island Story [Farm School Review]

Don Mitchell. Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn [Edge of the Forest Review]

Mari Rutz Mitchell (illustrations by Michael Kline). Creating Clever Castles and Cars [Big A little a Review]

Pat Murphy, Ellen Macaulay, and the staff of the Exploratorium (Illustrations by Jason Gorski). Exploratoria [Edge of the Forest Review]

Walter Dean Myers, Now Is Your Time  [cloudscome Review]

Kadir Nelson. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball [Fuse #8 Review]

Kadir Nelson. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball [Abby the Librarian Review]

Scott Reynolds Nelson. Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry [Abby the Librarian Review]

Gary Paulsen. How Angel Peterson Got His Name [bookshelves of doom Review]

Allan Peterkin (ill. Mike Shiell). Chill: Discover the Cool (and Creative) Side of Your Fridge [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

Joyce Raimondo. Picture This: Activities and Adventures in Impressionism [Propernoun Review]

Anthony Rapp.Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical "Rent" [Edge of the Forest Review]

Anne Renaud (ill. by Aries Cheung). Island of Hope and Sorrow:The Story of Grosse ÃŽle [The Well-Read Child Review]

Charlemae Hill Rollins. Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs and Stories [cloudscome Review]

Susan Goldman Rubin. Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter [Fuse #8 Review]

Susan Goldman Rubin and Ela Weissberger. The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin [Fuse #8 Review]

Joe Sartore. Face to Face With Grizzlies  [Propernoun.net Review]

Rosalyn Schanzer. George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen by Both Sides [Edge of the Forest Review]

Laura Amy Schlitz. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village [Fuse #8 Review]

Jon Scieszka. Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka [Fuse #8 Review]

Jon Scieszka. Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka [Abby the Librarian Review]

Elaine Scott. All About Sleep [Abby the Librarian Review]

Elaine Scott. Mars and the Search for Life [Abby the Librarian Review]

Elaine Scott. When is a Planet Not a Planet?: The Story of Pluto [Abby the Librarian Review]

Steve Sheinkin (ill. Tim Robinson). King George: What Was His Problem? Everything your schoolbooks didn't tell you about the American Revolution [Fuse #8 Review]

Anne Sibley O'Brien and Perry Edmund O'Brien After Gandhi: 100 Years of Nonviolent Resistence [Reading Tub Review]

Alexandra Siy. Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet [Fuse #8 Review]

Catherine Thimmesh. Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon [Fuse #8 Review]

Jan Thornhill. I Found a Dead Bird [Propernoun Review]

Mary C. Turck. Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights [Abby the Librarian Review]

Pamela S. Turner. Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes [Abby the Librarian Review]

Neil Waldman. Out of the Shadows: An Artist's Journey [Fuse #8 Review]

Sally M. Walker. Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley [Abby the Librarian Review]

Janice Weaver. Quilt of Belonging [Propernoun Review]

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. Wild Minds [Chasing Ray Review] (Another Review)

Jane Yolen (ill. Christine Joy Pratt). Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World [Fuse #8 Review]

 

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5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery, by Judith and Dennis Fradin [Fuse #8 Review]

After Gandhi: 100 Years of Nonviolent Resistence Anne Sibley O'Brien and Perry Edmund O'Brien [Reading Tub Review]

Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry, by Scott Reynolds Nelson [Abby the Librarian Review]

Albino Animals, by Kelly Milner Halls [Abby the Librarian Review]

All About Sleep, by Elaine Scott [Abby the Librarian Review]

Amelia to Zora: Twenty Six Women Who Changed the World , by Cynthia Chin-Lee [cloudscome Review]

The American Story, by Jennifer Armstrong (ill. by Roger Roth) [Edge of the Forest Review]

Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter, by Susan Goldman Rubin [Fuse #8 Review]

Another Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Bad, by Mark Gonyea [Fuse #8 Review]

An Artist's America, by Michael Albert [Fuse #8 Review]

Black and White Airmen: Their True History, by John Fleischman [Fuse #8 Review]

Blast From the Past: Ben Franklin's Fame, by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon (illustrated by Guy Francis) [Big A little a Review]

Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii, by James H. Deem [Edge of the Forest Review]

Bubble Homes and Fish Farts, by Fiona Bayrock (ill. Carolyn Conahan) [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

Capoeira: Game! Dance! Martial Art!, by George Ancona [The Well-Read Child Review]

Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet, by Alexandra Siy [Fuse #8 Review]

The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin, by Susan Goldman Rubin and Ela Weissberger [Fuse #8 Review]

Chill: Discover the Cool (and Creative) Side of Your Fridge, by Allan Peterkin (ill. Mike Shiell) [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs and Stories by Charlemae Hill Rollins [cloudscome Review]

Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker, by Carla Joinson [Edge of the Forest Review]

Creating Clever Castles and Cars, by Mari Rutz Mitchell (illustrations by Michael Kline) [Big A little a Review]

A Dangerous Engine: Benjamin Franklin, From Scientist to Diplomat, by Joan Dash (ill. Dusan Petricic) [Fuse #8 Review]

Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter, by Bonnie Christenson [Propernoun Review]

Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburg Fever to Avian Flu, by Denise Grady [Fuse #8 Review]

Do Not Open, by John Farndon [Abby the Librarian review]

Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, by Kathi Appelt [Abby the Librarian Review]

Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activites, by Stephanie Stein Crease [Fuse #8 Review]

Emi and the Rhino Scientist by Mary Kay Catson [Abby the Librarian Review]

Encyclopedia of Animals, by Karen McGhee and George McKay, Ph.D [Edge of the Forest Review]

Exploratoria, by Pat Murphy, Ellen Macaulay, and the staff of the Exploratorium (Illustrations by Jason Gorski) [Edge of the Forest Review]

Face to Face With Grizzlies, by Joe Sartore [propernoun.net Review]

Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and her Students by Suzanne Jurmain [Abby the Librarian Review]

Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Mark C. Turck [Abby the Librarian Review]

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Russell Freedman [Fuse #8 Review]

Frogs, Nic Bishop [Propernoun.net Review]

George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen by Both Sides, by Rosalyn Schanzer [Edge of the Forest Review]

George Washington Carver, by Tonya Bolden [Fuse #8 Review]

George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War, by Thomas B. Allen [Edge of the Forest Review]

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz [Fuse #8 Review]

Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes, by Pamela S. Turner [Abby the Librarian Review]

The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming [Fuse #8 Review]

The Great Race: The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908, by Gary Blackwood [Fuse #8 Review]

Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance , by Laban Carrick Hill [cloudscome Review]

Hero of the High Seas: John Paul Jones and the American Revolution, by Michael L. Scott [Fuse #8 Review]

Heroes of Baseball: The Men Who Made it America's Favorite Game, by Robert Lipsyte [Fuse #8 Review]

How Angel Peterson Got His Name, by Gary Paulsen [bookshelves of doom Review]

How to Scratch a Wombat, by Jackie French (ill. Bruce Whatley) [Fuse #8 Review]

Howtoons: The Possibilities are Endless, by Saul Griffith and Joost Bonsen (ill. Nick Dragotta) [Fuse #8 Review]

I Found a Dead Bird, by Jan Thornhill [Propernoun Review]

In Our Village: Kambi ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth, by Barbara Cervone (ed.) [Abby the Librarian Review]

Isaac Newton (Giants of Science), by Kathleen Krull (ill. Boris Kulikov) [Fuse #8 Review]

Island of Hope and Sorrow:The Story of Grosse ÃŽle, by Anne Renaud (ill. Aries Cheung) [The Well-Read Child Review]

King George: What Was His Problem? Everything your schoolbooks didn't tell you about the American Revolution, by Steve Sheinkin (ill. Tim Robinson) [Fuse #8 Review]

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka, by Jon Scieszka [Fuse #8 Review]

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka, by Jon Scieszka [Abby the Librarian Review]

Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn, by Don Mitchell [Edge of the Forest Review]

Living Color, by Steve Jenkins [propernoun.net Review]

A Little History of the World, by E.H. Gombrich [Farm School Review]

M3: Sir John Hargrave's Mischief Maker's Manual, by John Hargrave [Fuse #8 Review]

Mars and the Search for Life, by Elaine Scott [Abby the Librarian Review]

The McElderry Book of Greek Myths, by Eric A. Kimmel (ill. Pep Montserrat) [Fuse #8 Review]

My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary, by Nadja Halilbegovich [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

Mysteries of the Mummy Kids, by Kelly Milner Halls [Abby the Librarian review]

The Mysterious Universe, by Ellen Jackson [Abby the Librarian review]

Now Is Your Time , by Walter Dean Myers [cloudscome Review]

Off to War: Voices of Soldiers' Children, by Deborah Ellis [Fuse #8 Review]

Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People, by Albert Marrin (ill. C.B. Mordan) [Abby the Librarian Review]

Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People, by Albert Marrin (ill. C.B. Mordan) [Fuse #8 Review]

Our Island History, by H.E. Marshall [Farm School Review]

Out of the Shadows: An Artist's Journey, by Neil Waldman [Fuse #8 Review]

Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History, by Bryn Barnard [Abby the Librarian review]

Physics: Why Matter Matters, by Dan Green (ill by Basher) [excelsior file review]

Picture This: Activities and Adventures in Impressionism, by Joyce Raimondo [propernoun.net Review]

Quilt of Belonging, by Janice Weaver [Propernoun Review]

Saving the Buffalo, by Albert Marrin [Fuse #8 Review]

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World, by Jane Yolen (ill. Christine Joy Pratt) [Fuse #8 Review]

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker [Abby the Librarian Review]

Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade, by Esme Raji Codell [bookshelves of doom Review]

Skin Again, by Bell Hooks [cloudscome Review]

The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter, Katherine Kirkpatrick [Fuse #8 Review]

Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium, by Carla Killough McClafferty [Fuse #8 Review]

Swords: An Artist's Devotion, by Ben Boos [Abby the Librarian Review]

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, by Catherine Thimmesh [Fuse #8 Review]

Thanksgiving: The True Story, by Penny Colman [propernoun.net Review]

Thanksgiving: The True Story, by Penny Colman [Jen Robinson's Book Page Review]

Thanksgiving: The True Story, by Penny Colman [Fuse #8 Review]

Teeth, by Sneed B. Collard, III [cloudscome Review]

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion, by Loree Griffin Burns [Fuse #8 Review]

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion, by Loree Griffin Burns [Abby the Librarian Review] 

Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic, by Klutz editors John Cassidy and Nicholas Berger [excelsior file review]

The Trouble Begins at 8, by Sid Fleischman [Book Nut Review]

The Trouble Begins at 8, by Sid Fleischman [Abby the Librarian Review]

Up Before Daybreak: Cotten and People in America, by Deborah Hopkinson [Fuse #8 Review]

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, by Kadir Nelson [Fuse #8 Review]

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, by Kadir Nelson [Abby the Librarian Review]

When is a Planet Not a Planet?: The Story of Pluto, by Elaine Scott [Abby the Librarian Review]

Why Don't Your Eyelashes Grow? by Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D. [Breeni Books]

Wild Minds, by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld (Another Review) [Chasing Ray Review]

Wings, by Sneed B. Collard, III [A Wrung Sponge Review]

Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical "Rent", by Anthony Rapp [Edge of the Forest Review]