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Best Nonfiction Books for Kids Some kids prefer true stories -- history, biography, memoir, science -- to made-up ones. 3,053 ratings — published 2014, avg rating 4.16 — 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,090. 4,162 ratings — 196 ratings — published 2010, avg rating 3.74 — published 2005, avg rating 4.14 — published 1984, avg rating 3.61 — published 2015, avg rating 4.04 — 20,229 ratings — 62 ratings — published 2014, avg rating 3.96 — published 2014, avg rating 3.60 — Error rating book. published 2014, avg rating 3.87 — 9,086 ratings — 700 ratings — 30 of the Best Books for Middle Schoolers, Kids, and Tweens. 15,911 ratings — published 2016, avg rating 4.21 — Rocket to the Moon: Big Ideas That Changed the World by Don Brown Instead of reading a narrative nonfiction book, get your fact-filled history about the first moon landing in an exciting, well-written, black-and-white graphic novel. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/middle-school-nonfiction Refresh and try again. 982 ratings — Read both fiction and nonfiction titles about times that brought the Model T, an influenza epidemic, and flappers. published 1974, avg rating 4.36 — published 2012, avg rating 4.30 — by Katherine Applegate. 10,646 ratings — : Over Two Hundred Years of Fighting for the Ballot by Susan Goldman Rubin. World War II Books for Middle School. published 2009, avg rating 4.54 — 1,591 ratings — Can You Hear a Shout in Space, by Gilda Berger New Middle-Grade Nonfiction Winter 2019. A variety of fascinating books for ages 9-13 that teach critical thinking and critical reading skills. 664 ratings — With the adoption of Common Core standards in many states, elementary-school students are now expected to spend 50% of their reading time on literature and 50% on informational texts (i.e., nonfiction) to help them develop deeper knowledge of the world. published 2014, avg rating 4.11 — published, avg rating 3.95 — Kindle Edition. I Will Always Write Back book. 2,521 ratings — : The Story of the Great Houdini (Hardcover), All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1), D-Day: The World War II Invasion that Changed History (Scholastic Focus), Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion (Hardcover), The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica (Hardcover), A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human (Hardcover), The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World, Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb: Young Adult Edition (Hardcover), Tommy: The Gun That Changed America (Hardcover), Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream (Hardcover), Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat (Hardcover), No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits (Hardcover), The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi (Hardcover), George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution (Hardcover), We Fought Back Teen Resisters of the Holocaust. 9,189 ratings — published 2014, avg rating 3.93 — 1,564 ratings — 2,839,377 ratings — 910 ratings — published 2013, avg rating 4.13 — Recommended for ages 8-12 published 1992, avg rating 4.00 — published 2017, avg rating 3.80 — 12,289 ratings — 4,394 ratings — When you think of the best books for middle school, this genre should definitely be on every homeschooler’s list. published 2016, avg rating 3.65 — Similiar to our list of 100 (Fiction) Books to Read in a Lifetime, this list of 50 non-fiction books contains recommendations you might actually read (if you haven't already).This curated list covers the gamut of non-fiction, from compelling war stories to key feminist texts, to unbelievable struggles for survival, to tales of life in the culinary trade. published 1996, avg rating 3.63 — The Undefeated. published 2011, avg rating 3.91 — Having a diverse selection of nonfiction books in your classroom library is a great way for students to build a … : How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and how to fight back), The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us (Hardcover), Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science (Hardcover), Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD (Hardcover), The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives (Hardcover), Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover), Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People (Paperback), Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team (Hardcover), Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done (Hardcover), Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird (Hardcover), The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery (Hardcover), I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives (Hardcover), Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound (Hardcover), The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (Hardcover), The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. 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Barnum (Hardcover), Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Hardcover), Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Hardcover), Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Hardcover), Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (Hardcover), How to Be a World Explorer (Not-for-Parents), We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March (Hardcover), Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Hardcover), Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Hardcover). 59,295 ratings — 182 ratings — 1,869 ratings — published 2013, avg rating 3.81 — 402 ratings — published 2014, avg rating 3.59 — 5,671 ratings — 5,073 ratings — 4,162 ratings — Young Adult. published 2009, avg rating 4.12 — published 2015, avg rating 4.07 — The sudden change to a slower gear also left more room to reflect on the state of the world and our place as humans in it. : Mysterious Cases of People Gone Missing Through the Centuries (Hardcover), Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover), Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback), On Patrol: True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden (Paperback), Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice (Hardcover), The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition), Escape! 23,518 ratings — The winner is announced annually at the ALA Youth Media Awards , with a shortlist of up to five titles named the first week of December. published 2012, avg rating 4.04 — 15,911 ratings — published 2005, avg rating 3.56 — 123 ratings — published 2009, avg rating 4.22 — 372 ratings — 15,250 ratings — Best Nonfiction Books for Middle School Students. published 2012, avg rating 4.05 — 188 ratings — The Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 As the world went into lockdown early in 2020, many of us without frontline jobs and lucky enough not to fall sick with Covid-19 found more time to read than usual. 47,290 ratings — published 2010, avg rating 3.19 — Nonfiction books teach kids how to read for information but well-written books like these best nonfiction books of 2019 for kids, do more than that. A couple of notes: an interesting aspect of nonfiction for young readers is that divisions between middle grade and YA aren’t as clear-cut as they are for fiction. A great nonfiction book will inspire your middle schooler to delve deeper into the topic, sending them off to the library to find more books on the subject. 15,261 ratings — 1,974 ratings — illus. published 2010, avg rating 3.70 — 11,007 ratings — published 2015, avg rating 4.09 — published 2018, avg rating 3.84 — published 2013, avg rating 3.86 — published 2001, avg rating 4.08 — published 2015, avg rating 4.14 — YALSA's Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year. 286 ratings — published 2006, avg rating 3.61 — 560 ratings — Over the past couple of years, you may have noticed your child’s teachers placing greater emphasis on reading nonfiction. Welcome back. Nonfiction Books for 12-Year-Olds. published 2019, avg rating 3.96 — published 2006, avg rating 4.06 — Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed. published 2016, avg rating 3.81 — published, avg rating 3.53 — Books Go Search EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. 2,345 ratings — And importantly, a good nonfiction book will teach middle schoolers to be critical thinkers and readers. 5,578 ratings — published 2010, avg rating 4.40 — Refresh and try again. 14 ratings — published 2015, avg rating 3.75 — 1,379 ratings — 0 ratings — published 2012, avg rating 4.09 — published 2019, avg rating 4.06 — published 2013, avg rating 3.95 — 2,521 ratings — published 2017, avg rating 4.05 — published 2006, avg rating 3.79 — HarperCollins. published 2011, avg rating 3.85 — 2,560 ratings — 3,235 ratings — published 2017, avg rating 3.76 — 5,578 ratings — published 2017, avg rating 3.89 — 2 ratings — published 2009, avg rating 3.99 — Best Books for Middle Grade Readers Fill your classroom library with classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction page-turners like Hatchet, The Lightning Thief, Prisoner B-3087, and Esperanza Rising. published, avg rating 3.86 — Many nonfiction titles go for the 10-14 age range, which cuts through both the YA and middle grade field. A … From history to sports, memoirs science, indulge in your students' thirst for knowledge with Scholastic's expansive collection of nonfiction books for kids. avg rating 4.40 — published 2020, avg rating 4.14 — Nonfiction . B95 is a super athlete! Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget … 20 … 6,579 ratings — 2,517 ratings — 22 ratings — by Kadir Nelson. 6,506 ratings — 3,158 ratings — published, I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives (Hardcover), We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March (Hardcover), The Silk Road: Explore the World's Most Famous Trade Route with 20 Projects (Paperback), The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found (Hardcover), Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune (Hardcover), Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 (Paperback), Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Hardcover), Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Hardcover), Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about the Civil War (Hardcover), Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1), Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (Hardcover), The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery (Hardcover), Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America (With a Foreword by Alan Gratz), Freedom Summer For Young People: The Violent Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy (Kindle Edition), Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society (Hardcover), Minik: The New York Eskimo: An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People (Kindle Edition), Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done (Hardcover), The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch (Hardcover), Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (Hardcover), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback), Bullet and Shell: The Civil War as the Soldier Saw It (Hardcover), The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic (Paperback), The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audiobook), Missing! published 2009, avg rating 3.99 — published 2006, avg rating 4.31 — Try requesting a Personal Reading List and a librarian will send you a list of books tailored just for you! 609 ratings — 2,141 ratings — 8 Nonfiction Texts That Will Captivate Middle School and High School Students April 25, 2018 At any grade level, it is easy for English class to be solely a study of fictional literature, but students should be equally immersed in rich nonfiction as well. published 2005, Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science (Paperback), The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback), Older Than Dirt: A Wild but True History of Earth (Hardcover), Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel (Hardcover), I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Hardcover), Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings (Hardcover), Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Mass Market Paperback), Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover), A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You (Paperback), Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters (Paperback), Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier (Hardcover), Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (Hardcover), Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Hardcover), Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover), Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March (Hardcover), Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20 (Hardcover), What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience (Hardcover), Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill (Hardcover), Eat This! 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The nonfiction books on this list are meant to appeal to a wide range of readers. published 2003, avg rating 4.72 — 59 ratings — Illustrated by Patricia Castelao. published 2016, avg rating 3.96 — published 2017, avg rating 4.15 — 5,851 ratings — 9,372 ratings — published 1999, avg rating 4.14 — published 2004, avg rating 3.67 — 78,758 ratings — 1,564 ratings — by Kwame Alexander. published 2018, avg rating 3.62 — 183 ratings — They inform, entertain, surprise, deepen curiosity, and inspire. published 2018, avg rating 4.03 — 14,687 ratings — Poetry. 142 ratings — No matter your or your child’s reading tastes and interest, one or more of these books will be … This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of a teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. 216 ratings — published 1997, avg rating 4.06 — published 2018, avg rating 3.90 — 1,237 ratings — 989 ratings — They assume the book is too long, too difficult, or too boring, and many students stick to super-short biographies or animal books. published, avg rating 4.03 — 30,811 ratings — published 2019, avg rating 3.88 — published, avg rating 4.00 — Here are our favorite picks for the best nonfiction books for middle school students, many which are approved for use in all public and private schools, and you can find many more titles available in paperback, hardcover, and even Kindle editions here. Amal lives a quiet life in her Pakistani village, hoping to become a … 12,289 ratings — 183 ratings — 557 ratings — Scholastic presents 10 best-selling nonfiction books that can inspire lesson plans in earth science, math, social studies, history, and writing classes. THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN. 51,623 ratings — Tweens can learn a lot by reading middle school biography books. These are some of the best new and classic middle school novels and fiction books, for adult and child readers alike. published 2019, avg rating 3.43 — published 2014, avg rating 4.18 — published, avg rating 3.97 — published 2011, avg rating 3.74 — 1,112 ratings — 481 ratings — HMH/Versify. 118,087 ratings — 2,645 ratings — published 2014, avg rating 4.28 — published 2010, avg rating 4.06 — published 2011, avg rating 3.81 — published 1972, avg rating 4.33 — ISBN 9780823439577. 117 ratings — 910 ratings — published 2017, avg rating 3.75 — En Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Sign Account! 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