Informational Book Ideas
Here are some titles you may want to try and are in our school's Media Center.
Ten of Our Favorites
- Blood and Guts by Linda Allison
- Giants in the Land by Diana Applebaum
- Bet You Can't: Science Impossibilities to Fool You by Cobb, Vicki and Kathy Darling
- Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
- A Short Walk Around the Pyramids & Through the World of Art by Philip M. Isaacson
- The News About Dinosaurs by Patricia Lauber
- The Boys' War by Jim Murphy
- Smoke and Ashes by Barbara Rogasky
- Where on Earth: A Geografunny Guide to the Globe by Paul Rosenthal
- Know It All! The Fun Stuff You Never Learned in School by Ed Zotti
Others We Like
- What's Your Story? by Marion Dane Bauer
- Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh
- From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs by Amy L. Cohn
- The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin
- The Usborne Book of Paper Superplanes by Holland, Peter and Kate Needham
- How to Make Super Pop-Ups by Joan Irvine
- Alaska Bear Tales by Larry Kaniut
- Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth by Kathryn Lasky
- Tales Mummies Tell by Patricia Lauber
- The Way Things Work by David Macaulay
- Gold: The True Story of Why People Search For It, Mine It, Trade It, Steal It, Mint It, Horde It, Shape It, Wear It, Fight and Kill for It by Milton Meltzer
- The Human Body by Jonathan Miller
- Koko's Kitten by Francine Patterson
- Stephen Blesty's Cross-Sections: Man of War by Richard Platt
- Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Superstitions and Other Beliefs by Alvin Schwartz
- How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz
- Pets in a Jar by Seymour Simon
- People by Peter Spier
- The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories by Barbara M. Walker
- Bigfoot and Other Legendary Creatures by Paul Robert Walker