Nonfiction
(includes biographies)
The best way to find a good nonfiction book is to use the library catalog and do a search in the subjects of your interest. Still don’t know what to look for? Try these!
Primary
Series:
DK I Wonder & DK Readers
Extreme Readers
Let’s Read and Find Out Books
Rookie Read-About Books
Sam’s Science Series by Kate Rowan
See How They Grow Series (DK Publishers)
True Books (topics include: animals, sports, geography, Native Americans)
Titles:
Dive! A Book of DeepSea Creatures by Melvin Berger
Why Does Lighting Strike? Questions Children Ask About the Weather by Terry
Martin
Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder
Authors:
Nicola Davies
Steven Swinburne
Intermediate
Series:
DK Eyewitness series
Don't Know Much About... series
Jump! by Floyd Cooper
Magic Tree House Research Guides
National Geographic Photobiographies
Nature’s Children animal books
Who Was? Biographies
You Wouldn’t Want to… series
Titles:
Albino Animals by Kelly Milner Halls
Dogs and Cats by Steve Jenkins
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by
Catherine Thimmesh
Living Color by Steve Jenkins
Sneeze by Alenandra Siy
Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made by Bill Slavin
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer by Ahana Corey
Authors:
Russell Freedman,
Buffalo Hunt
Children of the Wild West
Freedom Walkers
The Wright Brothers
Jean Fritz
Jim Murphy,
The Great Fire
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Inside the Alamo
The Boys’ War
Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America
Peter Sis,
Tibet: Through the Red Box
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Judith St. George,
So You Want to be President
So You Want to be an Inventor
So You Want to be an Explorer
Mike Venezia,
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists Series
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series
Getting to know the US Presidents Series
Mochizuki, Ken
Passage to Freedom by
For All Ages
Series:
The Magic School Bus by Joanna Cole (informational text in fictional stories)
Math Is Categorical by Brian P. Cleary
Words Are Categorical by Brian P. Cleary
Titles:
Eleanor by Barbara Cooney
The Journey That Saved Curious George by Louise Borden
Hey Batta Batta Swing! The Wild Old Days of Baseball by Sally Cook
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Authors:
Melvin Berger
Gail Gibbons
Ann McGovern
Seymour Simon