Non Fiction 9-12 |
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Author Name |
Title |
Illustrator |
notes |
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Barakat, Ibtisam |
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood |
Palestine memoir |
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Gray, Theodore |
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Atom in the Universe |
Science |
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D'Aluisio, Faith |
Hungry Planet |
Peter Menzel |
lots of data to analyze in this examination of 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 the Civil Right Movement |
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that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement |
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Martinez, Ruben |
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail |
follows the story of 1 family |
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Hendricks, Tyche |
The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from US Borderlands |
Ordinary people on both sides of the Border |
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Zirin, David |
Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports |
Essays examine sports through the lenses of race, class, politics, identity |
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Rice, Ed |
Baseball's First Indian Louis Sockalexis |
Biography/Penobscot Legend |
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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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Todd, Leonard |
Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave |
family records and public archives add to the little that had been known about this enslaved master artisan |
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Niane, D.T. |
Sundiata: An Epic of Old |
Epic of ancient Malian King |
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