Guinness World Records 2017 Non-fiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) I love seeing all the weird, dangerous, and just plain outstanding things people do! Seeing all this is fascinating and really motivates someone to do something great!
Smile by Raina Telgemeier Graphic novel Nonfiction Review # 1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Very captivating. Love the pictures. The story is so believable. I can so relate to her getting braces. Her whole family is pretty much EXACTLY like mine. CREEPY.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton Jackson Non-Fiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) This book was about a young Jewish girl trying to survive the Holocaust. It tells of the horrors that went on and gives a first-person, inside view of everything that went on while she was there with her mother. This book reminds us of how horrible man can be.
I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda (w/Liz Welch) Autobiography-Memoir Non-fiction * * * * Stars (Great!) When Caitlin was 12, she was given the opportunity to choose a pen pal from another country. She picked Zimbabwe because it sounded “like the beginning of an adventure.” She and her pen pal, Martin Ganda, began exchanging letters, and over the years became best friends despite the many…
Crossing Niagara by Matt Tavares Nonfiction Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) Crossing Niagara is a nonfiction story about a guy named (called) Great Blondin. He crossed Niagara on a 3 inch wide rope and never fell. He did many tricks, including carrying a man on his back and standing on a chair. He finally left Niagara because he felt there was nothing left to accomplish.
Who Was Walt Disney? by Whitney Stewart Biography Nonfiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Who Was Walt Disney tells about Walt Disney. His whole life story. Why I liked this book is because it told little facts that I had never known or heard of before. This book tells how Walt Disney became one of the most popular companies, business, theme parks, and so much more… …
Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough Biography Juvenile Nonfiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Rosa Parks was an amazing woman who stood up for what she believed in. One day when she was on a bus, the bus driver told her to move to give her seat to another man on the bus. Rosa Parks replied, “NO.” So the bus driver called the police. She…
Who Was Joan of Arc? by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso Biography Juvenile Nonfiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) When Joan was a young girl she got a vision that she would lead an army into battle and would win. Joan thought it was impossible…Later she was leading the army into battle. She got another vision saying she would be hit with an arrow during battle. And…
Juvenile Nonfiction/Grades 4-8 Bianca Lavies, a former photographer for National Geographic, produced both the text and photographs for this wonderful introduction to social wasps. To take the photographs, she spent a couple of summers with some paper wasps that nested in her studio window – building a glass enclosure around their nest and photographing it and the wasps’ activities from all angles. For readers familiar with the life cycle of…
Jack Prelutsky’s poetic field guide to some neologistic creatures – carefully documented in the collages created by artist, Carin Berger – offers much to delight. From the titular “Stardines” which light the night skies and grant wishes, to the ChOrMOranTs who spend all their time engaged in pointless (but very important to them!) tasks (CHORES), and the “Fountain Lions” (“FOUNTAIN LIONS, lithe and lean, Add gaiety to any scene. The…