New Nonfiction for Kids | Downers Grove Public Library

1) Alberto Salas plays paka paka con la papa: join the quest with Peru's famed scientist and potato expert

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"What can a potato do? To Peruvian scientist Alberto Salas, they have the power to change the world. Go on the hunt with Alberto for for wild potatoes before they go extinct in this playful picture book biography, gorgeously illustrated by Caldecott-honoree Juana Martinez-Neal."--Provided by publisher.

2) Are we there yet?: the first road trip across the USA

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McAnulty, Stacy

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"It's May of 1903 and Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson is gearing up for the journey of a lifetime: the first road trip across the USA! After a heated debate about the power of "horseless carriages," aka cars, Dr. Jackson accepts a $50 bet that he can make the trip from San Francisco to New York in less than three months. Sure, he doesn't quite know how to drive and no one else has been able to make the trip before him, but Dr. Jackson knows this time will...

3) Beasts of the deep: sea creatures and popular culture

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Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the sea in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from...

4) Chicago Bears

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Scheff,Matt

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This book offers an exciting look at the Chicago Bears, from the legends of the past to the superstars of today. Short paragraphs provide easy-to-read text, while vivid photographs make the book engaging and accessible. The book also includes informative sidebars, a list of team records, a timeline, comprehension questions, a glossary, an index, and a list of resources for further reading. This book is part of the Apex Varsity imprint, which has a...

5) Chicago Bulls

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Tischler, Joe

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Creative sports NBA champions

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"Elementary-level text and dynamic sports photos highlight the NBA championship wins of the Chicago Bulls, plus sensational players associated with the professional basketball team such as Coby White"-- Provided by publisher.

6) Donald Trump: Unprecedented Politician

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Leed, Percy

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Donald Trump has been an unusual political leader ever since he was first elected to the US's highest office in 2016. President Trump's first term included more than twenty executive orders, three US Supreme Court justice nominations, and the first years

7) The doomsday detectives: how Walter and Luis Alvarez solved the mystery of dinosaur extinction

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Jenson-Elliott, Cynthia L

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Father-son scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez piece together one of the greatest mysteries of all time: What really happened to the dinosaurs? Dive into this fun and informative middle grade nonfiction book, which outlines the many important scientific discoveries that aided the Alvarezes in their search for answers.-- Provided by publisher.

8) Dreams to ashes: the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre

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Blackburne, Livia

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"A powerful nonfiction picture book about the history of Chinese immigration to the West Coast, presented through the lens of the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre. An essential account that offers both heartbreak and hope"-- Provided by publisher.

9) Ducks!

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Gibbons, Gail

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Explore the world with Gail Gibbons

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With their distinctive waddle and quack, quack, ducks are one of the most recognizable birds in the world. But did you know there are 150 types of ducks living on six continents? Discover how ducks swim, dive, feed, communicate, build nests and raise their young, and how conservation groups are trying to protect them and their habitats.

10) Earth Day and the environment

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Messner, Kate

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"Myths! Lies! Recycling scams? Discover the real story behind the first Earth Day celebration and some of the biggest US climate catastrophes--and their solutions!"-- Provided by publisher.

11) Earthrise: the story of the photograph that changed the way we see our planet

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Marcus, Leonard S

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"From renowned researcher and children's lit scholar Leonard S. Marcus comes a middle-grade nonfiction book about the astonishing photograph taken during the Apollo 8 mission that forever shifted the way we view our planet"-- Provided by publisher.

12) The five sides of Marjorie Rice: how to discover a shape

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Alznauer, Amy

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"When Marjorie Rice was a little girl in Roseburg, Oregon, in the 1930s, she saw patterns everywhere. Swimming in the river, her body was a shape in the water, the water a shape in the hills, the hills a shape in the sky. Some shapes, fitted into a rectangle or floor tilings, were so beautiful they made her long to be an artist. Marjorie dreamed of studying art and geometry, perhaps even solving the age-old "problem of five" (why pentagons don't fit...