Non Fiction 6-8 |
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Author Name |
Title |
Illustrator |
notes |
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Judge, Lita |
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds WWII |
Post-WWII relief effort to desperate families in Europe |
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Stone, Tanya Lee |
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream |
Tells of the efforts of 13 women to win admission to NASA's first astronaut training program |
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Barakat, Ibtism |
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood |
Palestine memoir |
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D'Aluisio, Faith |
What the World Eats |
Peter Menzel |
What we eat and how we get our food around the world |
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Hoose, Philip M. |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice |
Montgomery bus boycott from the perspective of the teen who refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Park sparked the boycott |
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Bowers, Rick |
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network… |
first-hand accounts of Civil Right Movement |
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that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement |
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Weitzman, David |
Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City |
Fascinating examination of the history of Mohawk ironworkers |
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Blair, Margaret Whitman |
Liberty or Death: The Surprising Story of Runaway Slaves who Sided with the British During the American Revolution |
lots of historical documentation included |
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Schwartz, John |
Short: Walking Tall When You’re Not Tall at All |
part memoir, part exploration of how and why short stature has become a medical condition, by a science writer for the NYT |
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Nelson, Scott & Marc Aronson |
Ain’t Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find John Henry |
a historian's account of his inquiry into the true story behind the legendary hero |
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell |
Kids On Strike |
detailed accounts of the roles that children and young adults played in labor strikes of the 19th and early 20th century |
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Sterling, Shirley |
My Name is Seepeetza |
Story of Indigenous Child taken from her parents and sent to a boarding school |
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