Nonfiction/Informational:
Stories based on true events, real people and facts.
Biography:
A true story written about somebody by an author.
Autobiography:
A true story that somebody writes about them self.
Stories based on true events, real people and facts.
Biography:
A true story written about somebody by an author.
Autobiography:
A true story that somebody writes about them self.
Title: A Child’s Alaska
Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy
Picture Book
This book is about Alaska and how children spend their time. In the winter months, Alaska gets extremely cold. People who live in Alaska have animals like moose right in their back yard. Because there are not always paths to get everywhere, people have to fly in small air planes to get around. In Alaska if you live in a town or city, you will also go to school there, but if you live in the bush, children go to small schools with only one or two teachers. Children go fishing, dog sledding, and go on river trips for fun.
Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy
Picture Book
This book is about Alaska and how children spend their time. In the winter months, Alaska gets extremely cold. People who live in Alaska have animals like moose right in their back yard. Because there are not always paths to get everywhere, people have to fly in small air planes to get around. In Alaska if you live in a town or city, you will also go to school there, but if you live in the bush, children go to small schools with only one or two teachers. Children go fishing, dog sledding, and go on river trips for fun.
Title: Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska
Author: Tricia Brown
Picture Book
This book is about what young kids do for fun in Alaska. It tells about the cold climate and the dark days. It tells the reader what young children enjoy eating. Many facts about Alaska can be found in this book.
Author: Tricia Brown
Picture Book
This book is about what young kids do for fun in Alaska. It tells about the cold climate and the dark days. It tells the reader what young children enjoy eating. Many facts about Alaska can be found in this book.
Title: Fly Away Home
Author: Eve Bunting
Picture Book
This book is about a son and his father who live in an airport. They haven’t had a home since his mom died. They have to be careful to not be noticed. If they are noticed they will be kicked out of the airport. The father goes to work to be a janitor. While he is gone, the Medina’s watch his son. The Medina’s are another family who live in the airport. The little boy gets money by helping people with luggage and he saves it to help his dad one day pay rent for an apartment. Sometimes he thinks he is going to be stuck in the airport forever but then he remembers a bird he once saw trapped inside finally got out after a while and then has hope again.
Author: Eve Bunting
Picture Book
This book is about a son and his father who live in an airport. They haven’t had a home since his mom died. They have to be careful to not be noticed. If they are noticed they will be kicked out of the airport. The father goes to work to be a janitor. While he is gone, the Medina’s watch his son. The Medina’s are another family who live in the airport. The little boy gets money by helping people with luggage and he saves it to help his dad one day pay rent for an apartment. Sometimes he thinks he is going to be stuck in the airport forever but then he remembers a bird he once saw trapped inside finally got out after a while and then has hope again.
Title: Hurricanes
Author: Seymour Simon
Picture Book
This book is all about hurricanes. It tells how they are formed, how they start, how serous they can be, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, the weather that comes with the hurricane, the effects of the hurricanes after its over and what you should do after a hurricane. It also shows picture damaged houses after hurricanes.
Author: Seymour Simon
Picture Book
This book is all about hurricanes. It tells how they are formed, how they start, how serous they can be, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, the weather that comes with the hurricane, the effects of the hurricanes after its over and what you should do after a hurricane. It also shows picture damaged houses after hurricanes.
Title: I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
Author: Rose Lewis
Picture Book
This story is about a woman who wrote a letter to officials in China to ask if she could adopt a baby. Weeks later she flew to get her baby. She loved her and wondered how she could be so perfect. Her family and friends all came to meet her too. She wanted her mother in China to know she was safe and happy and that she would never forget her.
Author: Rose Lewis
Picture Book
This story is about a woman who wrote a letter to officials in China to ask if she could adopt a baby. Weeks later she flew to get her baby. She loved her and wondered how she could be so perfect. Her family and friends all came to meet her too. She wanted her mother in China to know she was safe and happy and that she would never forget her.
Title: Lions of the Plains
Author: Anne Miranda
Picture Book
This is a true book about lions who live on the African Plains. Its all about lion cubs living their daily life. It tells all about their lives and shows pictures for the readers to see what it is like for lions to grow up.
Author: Anne Miranda
Picture Book
This is a true book about lions who live on the African Plains. Its all about lion cubs living their daily life. It tells all about their lives and shows pictures for the readers to see what it is like for lions to grow up.
Title: Living Sunlight: How Plants bring Earth to Life
Author: Molly Bang and Penny Chisolm
Picture Book
This is about how the sun gives energy to the earth. The sun narrates the book describing how the sun’s energy is converted into our energy. It all starts with the plants. All day the plants suck up the sun’s energy. They also soak up water from the ground and then break up the water into H and 02. While it is doing that it uses the sun’s energy into little packets. Meanwhile the plants breathe out C02 and breathe in oxygen. The sun used the packets of energy and the carbon dioxide from the air to make sugar. The plants build all of their parts from sugar. We use the sun’s energy when we eat plans. The plants are what let us breathe oxygen and clean air.
Author: Molly Bang and Penny Chisolm
Picture Book
This is about how the sun gives energy to the earth. The sun narrates the book describing how the sun’s energy is converted into our energy. It all starts with the plants. All day the plants suck up the sun’s energy. They also soak up water from the ground and then break up the water into H and 02. While it is doing that it uses the sun’s energy into little packets. Meanwhile the plants breathe out C02 and breathe in oxygen. The sun used the packets of energy and the carbon dioxide from the air to make sugar. The plants build all of their parts from sugar. We use the sun’s energy when we eat plans. The plants are what let us breathe oxygen and clean air.
Title: Looking Closely Along the Shore
Author: Frank Serafini
Picture Book
This book brings the reader to the shore and shows them different objects there. It makes the reader examine the picture first and then when they turn the page it shows a better picture to reveal what it really is.
Author: Frank Serafini
Picture Book
This book brings the reader to the shore and shows them different objects there. It makes the reader examine the picture first and then when they turn the page it shows a better picture to reveal what it really is.
Title: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Picture Book
This book is about a street performer named Philippe. One day he dressed like a construction worker and snuck into the twin towers. At night, he and a friend set up cable wire for him to walk across. It wasn’t until morning that it was ready to walk across. He walked and danced on the rope for over an hour. Cops were at the top of the building waiting to arrest him. The judge sentenced him to perform for kids. He didn’t mind his punishment at all.
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Picture Book
This book is about a street performer named Philippe. One day he dressed like a construction worker and snuck into the twin towers. At night, he and a friend set up cable wire for him to walk across. It wasn’t until morning that it was ready to walk across. He walked and danced on the rope for over an hour. Cops were at the top of the building waiting to arrest him. The judge sentenced him to perform for kids. He didn’t mind his punishment at all.
Title: Me and Momma and Big John
Author: Mara Rockliff
Picture Book
This story is about a family of a mother and three children. One of the children’s names was John. She was a construction worker and helped work on the stones that were used to make the cathedral named Big John. She would talk to her children about it and said it was an art and that every stone had to be done carefully. Finally the stone their mother was working on was finished so they took them into the city to see it. First they stopped at her workshop and she showed him the stone which he was shocked because it was only one stone and it took her so long to work on it. He was sad because no one would ever realize how much work she put into that one stone. Then she took them to the cathedral which was huge. She took them inside and out and pointed way up into the sky to where her stone would go. John then understood why it was so special. No one would understand except for him, his momma, and Big John.
Author: Mara Rockliff
Picture Book
This story is about a family of a mother and three children. One of the children’s names was John. She was a construction worker and helped work on the stones that were used to make the cathedral named Big John. She would talk to her children about it and said it was an art and that every stone had to be done carefully. Finally the stone their mother was working on was finished so they took them into the city to see it. First they stopped at her workshop and she showed him the stone which he was shocked because it was only one stone and it took her so long to work on it. He was sad because no one would ever realize how much work she put into that one stone. Then she took them to the cathedral which was huge. She took them inside and out and pointed way up into the sky to where her stone would go. John then understood why it was so special. No one would understand except for him, his momma, and Big John.
Title: Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
Author: Don Brown
Picture Book
This book is about Albert Einstein and how everybody misjudged him. Einstein loved math and music but he hated every other subject. He refused to memorize other subjects. Teachers told him he was going nowhere in life. He found things interesting that other boys did not. He started his own theories for math. Things like automatic door openers, televisions, space travel and atomic energy would not be possible without Einstein. He won the Nobel Prize.
Author: Don Brown
Picture Book
This book is about Albert Einstein and how everybody misjudged him. Einstein loved math and music but he hated every other subject. He refused to memorize other subjects. Teachers told him he was going nowhere in life. He found things interesting that other boys did not. He started his own theories for math. Things like automatic door openers, televisions, space travel and atomic energy would not be possible without Einstein. He won the Nobel Prize.
Title: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Picture Book
This story is about how Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom. The story starts off when Harriet Tubman was a slave. She sat out under the stars and talked to the Lord. She got a plan to runaway to freedom. Along the entire journey God guided her and kept her safe. She ran into a couple who believed that slavery was a sin and they helped her. By the end of the story, Harriet Tubman was free.
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Picture Book
This story is about how Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom. The story starts off when Harriet Tubman was a slave. She sat out under the stars and talked to the Lord. She got a plan to runaway to freedom. Along the entire journey God guided her and kept her safe. She ran into a couple who believed that slavery was a sin and they helped her. By the end of the story, Harriet Tubman was free.