Nonfiction

Gr 5 Up–“Harry Gold was right: This is a big story...

PreS-Gr 2–Lessac has long been a lively interpreter of Caribbean culture...

Gr 3-5–Each book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, diet, predators, and prey of the featured cat, and the effect it has on the environment...

Using historical photographs, film footage, and interviews with people in Europe, the United States, and Ghana, the female narrator takes viewers from the beginning of mass production in the 1920s with Henry Ford’s Model-T to General Motors’ annual car models to Bernard London’s proposal during the New Deal era for compulsory planned obsolescence that he believed would keep people working and create a continuous market demand for consumer goods to the 1950s when designers subscribed to this mantra...

Gary Soto’s delightful road trip (Scholastic, 1995) takes place on bikes as Hector and Mando decide to visit Hector’s relatives across California during summer break...

PreS-Gr 2– In 1845, at age 28, Thoreau built a tiny cabin in the woods beside Walden Pond outside the town of Concord, Massachusetts...

Gr 3-6–Everything about these titles has been updated through 2011, including the series name (the original editions were published as “Super Sports Star ___”)...

David Hyde Costello’s humorous story (Charlesbridge, 2011) about Little Pig who is too small to play any of the marching band instruments stored in a box at Grandpa’s house...

Joey Jordan 13, is an elite gymnast—she spends eight hours a day at the gym, leaving little time for boys, friends outside of her teammates, and other typical teenage activities...