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Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muirby Julie Bertagna; illus. by William GoldsmithIntermediate, Middle School Yosemite Conservancy 128 pp.3/19 978-1-930238-94-7 $17.99This creatively rendered biography-in-comics-format of John Muir (1838–1914) is filled with the naturalist’s adventures, from his childhood in Scotland to his pioneering conservation work and formation of America’s National Parks....
Bulion, Leslie Leaf Litter CrittersGr. 4–6 56 pp. PeachtreeIllustrated by Robert Meganck. Nineteen poems (in various forms) accompanied by bright digital illustrations provide information both whimsical and scientific about inhabitants of the brown food web — the layer of leaves and soil where organic matter breaks down and plants grow....
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918by Albert Marrin; read by Jim FrangioneMiddle School, High School Listening Library Rev. 3/185 CDs 5.75 hrs. 978-1-525-52609-4 $45.00Marrin’s account of the flu pandemic that killed millions of people during World War I, plus modern-day efforts to identify that strain and prevent...
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassinby James L. Swanson; read by Kim StauntonMiddle School, High School Scholastic Audio5 CDs 5.67 hrs. 978-1-338-22724-6 $29.99With intensity and clarity, Swanson documents the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and James Earl Ray — King’s assassin — and...
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of Americaby Gail JarrowIntermediate, Middle School Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills 142 pp.8/18 978-1-62979-776-2 $18.95e-book ed. 978-1-68437-143-3 $9.99In 1938, on the night before Halloween, an American radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells’s...
Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballotby Winifred Conkling; read by Christina MooreMiddle School, High School Recorded Books Rev. 3/186 CDs 7.25 hrs. 978-1-5019-7193-8 $20.99Narrator Moore has a deep, resonant alto with a no-nonsense quality that perfectly embodies the resolve of America’s first feminists. When quoting...
Water Land: Land and Water Forms
Around the Worldby Christy Hale; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.5/18 978-1-250-15244-2 $17.99Die-cuts serve both useful and playful purpose in this introduction to Earth’s various meetings of water and landforms. A boy idyllically fishes on a small pond while a girl...
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathonby Annette Bay Pimentel; illus. by Micha ArcherPrimary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g2/18 978-1-101-99668-3 $17.99"Bobbi Gibb must wear a skirt to school because she is a girl. She is not allowed to run on the school's track team. Because those are the rules —...
Alexander, Kwame Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and PicturesGr. K–3 48 pp. National GeographicPhotographs by Joel Sartore. With Mary Rand Hess and Deanna Nikaido. Striking, detailed photographs of animals appear against black or white backgrounds as descriptive, sometimes metaphorical text plays loosely with the haiku form. Word...
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