Shell Song, by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson, tells the story of Japanese American incarceration in in Hawai’i during World War II.
Browsing: nonfiction
Solve your way through 14 connected maze worlds in Mega Math Maze: A Multiplication Adventure, by Kjartan Poskitt.
Learn about birds and their habitats in Turn This Book into A Bird Feeder, a hands-on guide by Lynn Brunelle.
Magic in a Drop of Water, by Julie Winterbottom and Susan Reagan, is a biography of scientist and environmental hero Ruth Patrick, one of the first to warn about the dangers of pollution.
Who Owns the Moon? And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space, by Cynthia Levinson and Jennifer Swanson is a primer for teens who may someday travel to the moon.
The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape, by Amy Alznauer and Anna Bro, explores art and geometry through the life and lens of an amateur mathematician.
Learn the story of how one woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams.
Meet Lorena Ramírez, an Indigenous Rarámuri athlete from Mexico known for winning ultramarathons in her traditional skirts and rubber sandals, in Daughter of the Light-Footed People.
Learn about the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist — in The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist, by Patricia Daniele and Junyi Wu.
Learn the story of the first American woman to fly to space in I am Sally Ride, the 35th hero in the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.