Chapter Five. Informational Books

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1 Chapter Five Informational Books Informational books, including biographies, presented here represent a small fraction of excellent nonfiction books published for YAs each year. Since few informational books are chosen by young adults for the Young Adults Choices lists, book titles are limited to award selections and my personal recommendations. For timely sources of recommended nonfiction (and fiction), consult H. W. Wilson book lists online and in print for two excellent selection tools: Senior High Core Collection and Middle and Junior High Core Collection at Informational Books Aaseng, Nathan Navaho Code Talkers. Walker. Aslan, Reza No god but God: The Origins and Evolution of Islam. Delacorte. Bang, Molly Picture This: How Pictures Work. SeaStar. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler s Shadow. Scholastic. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group. Houghton. Bausum, Ann With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman s Right to Vote. National Geographic. Bausum, Ann Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement. National Geographic. Bausum, Ann Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr. s Final Hours. National Geographic. Begay, Shonto Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa. Scholastic. Bell, Ruth Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships. 3 rd ed. Times Books. Blumenthal, Karen Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition. Roaring Brook.

2 Bode, Janet The Voices of Rape: Healing the Hurt. Franklin Watts. (YAC 2000) Bolden, Tonya Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church. Knopf. Bowers, Rick Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement. National Geographic. Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Holt. Bruchac, Joseph Pocahontas. Silver Whistle. Burns, Loree Griffin The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe. Illus. Ellen Harasimowicz. Houghton. Capote, Truman In Cold Blood. Vintage. Chryssicas, Mary Kaye Breathe: Yoga for Teens. DK. Deem, James M Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii. Houghton Mifflin. Deem, James M Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America. Houghton Mifflin. Duncan, Lois Who Killed My Daughter? Dell. Edelman, Bernard Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. Simon and Schuster. Freedman, Russell Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Holiday. Frydenborg, Kay Wild Horse Scientists (Scientists in the Field). Houghton Mifflin. Goodall, Jane, The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours. Scholastic. Harris, Robie It s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Heath. Candlewick. Heos, Bridget Stronger Than Steel: Spider Silk DNA and the Quest for Better Bulletprooof Vest, Sutures, and Parachute Rope (Scientists in the Field). Houghton Mifflin. Hess, Nina A Practical Guide to Monsters. Mirrorstone. Hoose, Phillip The Race to Save the Lord God Bird. Farrar Straus Giroux. Hoose, Phillip Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95. Farrar Straus Giroux. Janeczko, Paul The Dark Game: True Spy Stories. Candlewick. Levinson, Cynthia We ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children s March. Peachtree. Macaulay, David Ship. Houghton Mifflin. McKissack, Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States. Scholastic.

3 McWhorter, Diane A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to Scholastic. Macy, Sue Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires along the Way). National Geographic. Montgomery, Sy Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea. Illus. Nic Bishop. Montgomery, Sy Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World s Strangest Parrot. Illus. Nic Bishop. Houghton. Murphy, Jim The Great Fire. Scholastic. Murphy, Jim An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of Clarion. Napoli, Donna Jo Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Monsters. National Geographic. Newquist, HP The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins. Houghton Mifflin. O Connell, Caitlin and Donna M. Jackson The Elephant Scientist. Houghton Mifflin. Osborne, Linda Barrett Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation & Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years. Abrams Books. Paulsen, Gary Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods. Delacorte. Rappaport, Doreen Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust. Candlewick. Reinagle, Damon J Draw Medieval Fantasies: A Step by Step Guide. F&W. Rubalcaba, Jill, and Peter Robertshaw Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates. Charlesbridge. Rusch, Elizabeth Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Opportunity and Spirit. Houghton Mifflin. Sandler, Martin W The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure. Candlewick.

4 Schlosser, Eric, and Charles Wilson Chew on This: Everything You Don t Want to Know about Fast Food. Houghton Mifflin. Scott, Elaine Buried Alive! How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert. Clarion. Sheinkin, Steve Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal The World s Most Dangerous Weapon. Roaring Brook Press. Stone, Tonya Lee Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. Candlewick. Stone, Tonya Lee The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll s History and Her Impact on Us. Viking. Thimmesh, Catherine Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. Houghton Mifflin. Thompson, Ruth Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust. Candlewick. Todd, Mark and Esther Pearl Watson Whatcha Mean, What s a Zine? The Art of Making Zines and Mini-Comics. Graphia. VanHecke, Susan Raggin, Jazzin, Rockin : A History of American Musical Instrument Makers. Boyds Mills. Zimmern, Andrew Andrew Zimmen s Field Guide to Exceptionally Weird, Wild, & Wonderful Foods. Feiwel and Friends. Autobiographies, Biographies, Collected Biographies, and Memoirs Al-Windawi, Thura Thura s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq. Viking. Angel, Ann Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing. Amulet. Aronson, Marc Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies. Candlewick. Atkin, S. Beth Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farm Workers Tell Their Stories. Little, Brown. Blumenthal, Karen Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different. Feiwel and Friends.

5 Borden, Louise His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue, and Mystery During World War II. Houghton Mifflin. Bragg, Georgia How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous. Walker. Crutcher, Chris King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography. Greenwillow. Davis, Andrea Pinkney Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. Disney Jump at the Sun Books. Ellis, Deborah Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War. Groundwood Books. Fleming, Candace Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Schwartz and Wade. Fleischman, Sid Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World. Greenwillow. Freedman, Russell Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery. Clarion. Gantos, Jack Hole in My Life. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. George-Warren, Holly The Cowgirl Way: Hats Off to America s Women of the West. Houghton Mifflin. Glover, Savion and Bruce Weber Savion: My Life in Tap. Morrow. Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist. Yearling. Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop. Delacorte. Heiligman, Deborah Charles and Emma: The Darwins Leap of Faith. Holt. Hoose, Phillip Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Farrar Straus Giroux. Hopkinson, Deborah Titanic: Voices from the Disaster. Scholastic. Hunter-Gault, Charlayne To the Mountaintop: My Journey through the Civil Rights Movement. Roaring Brook Press. Jarrow, Gail The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician. Calkins Creek. Jimenez, Francisco The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. University of New Mexico. (Sequels) Jimenez, Francisco Breaking Through. Sandpiper. Jimenez, Francisco Reaching Out. Graphia. Katz, Jon Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho. Villard. Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. Doubleday.

6 Lakin, Patricia Steve Jobs: Thinking Differently. Aladdin. Lobel, Anita No Pretty Pictures. Greenwillow. Lowry, Lois Looking Back: A Book of Memories. Delacorte. Mah, Adeline Yen Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter. Random House. (YAC 2001) Meigs, Cornelia Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women. Little, Brown. Meltzer, Melvin Langston Hughes. Millbrook. Nelson, Kadir Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. Balzer and Bray. Montgomery, Sy Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World. Houghton Mifflin. Murphy, Jim and Alison Blank Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure. Clarion. Myers, Walter Dean Bad Boy: A Memoir. Amistad. Nelson, Kadir We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball. Hyperion. Nelson, Marilyn Sweethearts of Rhythm. Illus. Jerry Pinkney. Dial. Paulsen, Gary My Life in Dog Years. Illus. Ruth Wright Paulsen. Delacorte. Peck, Richard Anonymously Yours: A Memoir by the Author of Ghosts I Have Been. Messner. Pinkney, Davis Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. Illus. Stephen Alcorn. Harcourt. Plain, Nancy Mary Cassatt: An Artist s Life. Dillon. Pollard, Michael Johann Gutenberg: Master of Modern Printing. Blackbirch. Reef, Catherine The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Clarion. Rodriguez, Gaby with Jenna Glatzer The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster. Rubin, Susan Goldman Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein. Charlesbridge. Shields, Charles J I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee. Holt. Silvey, Anita The Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth. Farrar Straus Giroux. Sleator, William Oddballs. Puffin. Stanley, Diane Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam. HarperCollins.

7 Stewart, Whitney The 14 th Dalai Lama: Spiritual Leader of Tibet. Lerner. Wadsworth, Ginger First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low. Clarion. Warren, Andrea Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps. HarperCollins. Wiesel, Elie Night. Hill & Wang. Zindel, Paul The Pigman and Me. Starfire.