Books. Nonfiction

New Year, new category. Today I am weighing in on New Adult books. This post could be considered a response or addition to Liz Burns’s excellent work over on the Tea Cozy blog. She published three posts on this topic over the weekend, and I recommend that you read at least the first before continuing [...]

With nonfiction and informational text at the forefront of the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS), there are new demands and opportunities for reading, writing, speaking and listening for students.Hear directly from some of today’s leading children’s and young adult nonfiction authors as they speak about their work and the specific ways nonfiction and informational texts can be used by librarians and teachers to help their students become better readers. This panel will also explore the ways in which the following focus points connect to the Common Core State Standards for Reading and Writing. Archive now available!

Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L’Engle in Many Voices by Leonard S. Marcus. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. Review copy from publisher. It’s About: Madeleine L’Engle, beloved author of A Wrinkle In Time (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1962). The Good: How to write a biography of Madeleine L’Engle, especially when so many people [...]

Little did Tom Trelawney know that after accidentally burning down his family’s shed he would embark on the adventure of a lifetime...

Moses was rescued as a newborn during a hurricane in North Carolina by Colonel LoBeau and has lived with him and Miss Lana ever since...

In the decades since the peace treaty was signed, a fragile amity has existed between humans and dragons...

Nicholas, 12, and his younger twin sisters are not very excited to be spending the summer with their great uncle in Ohio, until they discover that he is going to teach them to sail his 28-foot sailboat...

Anne Greenwood Brown’s novel (Delacorte, 2012) about mermaids and forbidden love is not the innocent story usually told about the merpeople...

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...