Non-Fiction List H
Rising Honors 8th Grade
Science Selections
101 Questions Your Brain has Asked About Itself but couldn’t Answer…Until Now by Faith Brynie
Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig & Vivien Thomas: Mending Children’s Hearts by Lisa Yount
Chased by Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep by Nigel Marven
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food by Eric Schlosser
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America by James Deem
Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas by Richard Panchyk
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine by Sally Walker
With a Little Luck: Surprising Stories of Amazing Discoveries by Dennis Fradin
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally Walker
History Selections
Air Raid Pearl Harbor! The Story of December 7, 1941 by Theodore Taylor
The Ancient Egyptians by Lila Perl
The Ancient Inca by Patricia Calvert
Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
by James Swanson
Cause: Reconstruction America, 1863-1877 by Tonya Bolden
Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews by Ellen Levine
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll’s History and her Impact on Us By Tanya Stone
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Bartoletti
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
Lincoln’s Last Days: The Shocking Assassiation that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly
Mysteries of History by Robert Stewart
The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence by Marc Aronson
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
by Jennifer Armstrong
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Alert Marrin
Famous People
Abraham Lincoln: A Photographic Story of a Life by Tanya Lee Stone
Abigail Adams: A Photographic Story of a Life by Kem Sawyer
Barak Obama: A Photographic Story of a Life by Stephen Krensky
Benjamin Franklin: A Photographic Story of a Life by Stephen Krensky
Clara Barton: A Photographic Story of a Life by Stephen Krensky
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Photographic Story of a Life by Kem Sawyer
Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas by Richard Panchyk
George Washington: A Photographic Story of a Life by Lenny Hort
Harriet Tubman: A Photographic Story of a Life by Kem Sawyer
Heroes in Black History: True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes by Dave & Neta Jackson
How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women who were second to None by Elizabeth Kimmel
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Photographic Story of a Life by Amy Pastan
Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You about the Civil War
by Steve Sheinkin
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas
Witnesses to War: Eight True-Life stories of Nazi Persecution by Michael Leapman
Thomas Jefferson: A Photographic Story of a Life by Jacqueiline Ching
Freedom and Justice Selections
And Not Afraid to Dare: The Stories of Ten African-American Women by Tonya Bolden
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 by Diane McWhorter
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden
Failure is Impossible! By Martha Kendall
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and its Legacy by Albert Marrin
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
by Ann Bausum
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin Sandler
Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer
Superman Versus The KuKlux Klan by Rick Bowers
Sports Selections
Through my Eyes: A Quarterback’s Journey by Tim Tebow
Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity by Drew Brees
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX by Karen Blumenthal
Nazi Olympics by Susan Bachrach
No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and Life
by Kyle Maynard
Sharpened Iron: The Tee Cotton Bowl Story by Mel LeCompte Jr.
Soccer IQ by Dan Blank
Throwing Strikes: My Quest for Truth and the Perfect Knuckleball by R.A. Dickey
Military Selections
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo
Born to Fly: the Heroic Story of Downed U.S. Navy Pilot Lt. Shane Osborn by Shane Osborn
D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 by Rick Atkinson
Forgotten Heroes: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers by Clinton Cox
Hoodwinked: Deception and Resistance by Stephen Shapiro
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin Sandler
In the Line of Fire by Judith St. George
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
by Neal Bascomb
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
by Mary Farrell
People Selections
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murdresses, Thieves & Other Female Villains by Jane Yolen
China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution by Da Chen
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Courageous Christians by Joyce Vollmer Brown
Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer
Up Close: Ronald Reagan by James Sutherland
Additional Selections
Animal Rights by Christie Ritter
Becoming a Mighty Man of God by Ray Hawkins
Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens by Robert Kiyosaki
Saving Levi: Left to Die..Destined to Live by Lisa Bentley
When Teens Pray by Cheri Fuller