Books. Nonfiction

Gr 2-4–These well-organized volumes offer practical advice on the best way to improve in the four areas named in the titles...

PreS-K–A simple rhyming game models a way for adults to teach children that subtraction is a taking-away function...

K-Gr 1–Each book covers a simple machine and reveals how it works, such as utilizing a screw or nut and bolt to hold a toy car or a jungle gym together...

Lola is a sweet little girl who just loves to read at all times of the day and has a special book for every occasion...

Gr 8 Up–Guevara was, and is, an iconic figure of revolutionary movements everywhere...

Follow the yellow brick road into L...

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...