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Non-Fiction You Should Know About
Tired of reading fiction? Looking for something more substantial, requiring contemplation and is mentally stimulating? Check out these great titles...
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Hitler Youth By Bartoletti, Susan Campbell 2005/04 - Scholastic Check Our Catalog Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. ...More |
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation By Chang, Jeff Herc, D. J. Kool 2005/02 - St. Martin's Press Check Our Catalog Based on original interviews with DJs, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, this work chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 1960s into the new millennium. ...More |
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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott By Freedman, Russell 2006/10 - Holiday House Check Our Catalog Freedman breathes life into the key personalities and events that contributed to the yearlong civil rights struggle known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Photos. ...More |
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Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas By Freedman, Russell 2007/10 - Clarion Books Check Our Catalog Many generations of American schoolchildren were taught that Columbus discovered America, and a holiday reminds us every October. But historical investigation in recent years has shown us otherwise. There is evidence that adventurers, explorers, traders, and nomads from various parts of the globe set foot on American soil long before 1492. And expeditions that landed in the Americas reported people already living there--indicating that America had been "discovered" before. Russell Freedman brings his legendary skills as researcher and storyteller to this fresh and intriguing look at the American past. Colorful legends and first-person accounts are woven into the riveting narrative, which also illuminates the way historians and mapmakers have gathered, evaluated, and recorded information throughout the ages. ...More |
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming By Gore, Albert, Jr. 2007/04 - Viking Children's Books Check Our Catalog Gore's bestselling book is now adapted for perhaps the most important audience of all: today's youth, who have no choice but to confront the planetary emergency head-on. Bursting with color photos, this book clearly explains global warming. (Environmental Studies) ...More |
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September 11, 2001 By Hampton, Wilborn 2003/08 - Candlewick Press (MA) Check Our Catalog Through interviews and accounts of survivors, heroes, and even terrorists, the author of "Kennedy Assassinated!" creates a deeper understanding of the events of that tragic day. Photos. ...More |
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Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America By Hopkinson, Deborah 2006/04 - Scholastic Check Our Catalog In this stunning nonfiction volume, an award-winning author weaves together the stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers, illuminating the history of cotton in America. Illustrated with period photos. ...More |
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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels By McCloud, Scott 2006/09 - HarperCollins Publishers Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title |
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A Dream of Freedom By McWhorter, Diane 2004/10 - Scholastic Check Our Catalog In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown versus the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated). Beginning with an overview of the movement since the end of the Civil War, McWhorter also discusses such events as the 1956 MTGS bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1963 demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, among others.The author uses interviews she conducted personally with ...More |
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One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals By Noyes, Deborah 2006/08 - Houghton Mifflin Company Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title |
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China By Polly, Matthew 2007/02 - Gotham Books Check Our Catalog Alex Award Winner - 2008 Laced with humor and illuminated by cultural insight, this coming-of-age tale explores one young American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. 8-page photo insert. ...More |
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers By Roach, Mary 2003/04 - W. W. Norton & Company Check Our Catalog Alex Award Winner - 2004 |
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain By Sis, Peter 2007/08 - Farrar Straus Giroux Check Our Catalog 2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner In his most personal work to date, award-winning author Peter Sis offers a brilliant graphic memoir, taking readers on an extraordinary journey as he recalls his youth growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, when his country was on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. ...More |
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon By Thimmesh, Catherine 2006/06 - Houghton Mifflin Company Check Our Catalog Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Winner - 2007 Culling NASA transcripts, national archives, and stunning NASA photos from "Apollo 11," the author captures the dedication, ingenuity, and perseverance of the people behind the scenes who worked to make the first moon landing possible. Full color. ...More |
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Immersed in Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet's Life By Wolf, Allan Mourning, Tuesday 2006/03 - Lark Books (NC) Check Our Catalog Poetry's hip, poetry's hot, and poetry's a blast with this cool, contemporary guide created in the same entertaining style as the popular "In Print!" |
