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Heists and Hijinks! Scams and Scoundrels! It’s a Diamond Fever Q&A with Steve Sheinkin and Jon Chad
Slicksters and tricksters abound in the latest from Sheinkin & Chad. That's why we're getting the inside scoop of this incredible heist story (though Steve refuses to let us know where that doggone diamond mine is).
Secret Agent Men (and Women!): A Double Crossed Q&A with Rebecca E.F. Barone
"I’ll read anything that’s a good story! We use stories as a way of making sense of and understanding the world around us, and I’d argue that’s as much the point of fiction as it is of nonfiction." Rebecca E.F. Barone waxes rhapsodic about her latest spy thriller.
Review of the Day: My Bicentennial Summer by G. Neri, ill. Corban Wilkin
Neri takes the facts of what happened when his family embarked on the road trip to beat all road trips, and ties that summer during the bicentennial into the state of the country today. Deeply fun, utterly smart, and visually arresting.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Nonfiction Books for Older Readers
Forget the picture books. Older nonfiction, that nebulous but ultimately satisfying genre, is where the action is. This list today just proves it.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Nonfiction Books for Older Readers
One thing you will definitely find here today are my favorite reads for older kids in 2022, if those kids happen to be into nonfiction and informational books. These are lean, mean, fact-spouting machines and they are perfect for fact-loving kids.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Nonfiction Books for Older Readers
Here's a brief smattering of some of the books that I think are deserving of your time and attention. If you know a kid that loves their informational texts, something on this list is bound to whet their whistle.
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Review of the Day: While I Was Away by Waka T. Brown
Waka T. Brown fills her latest book with all the pathos, yearning, frustrations, and humor you might find in a middle grade novel. The important difference? It’s all true. It’s all real. It’s all enthralling.
Review of the Day: Escape at 10,000 Feet by Tom Sullivan
From what I can tell, this title is going to make a lot of kids into fans of exciting works of history. That is, if they can wrench this book away from their grown-ups. Because if there’s one thing I know, an enticing unsolved mystery is good but a fantastically rendered unsolved mystery is irresistible.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Nonfiction for Older Readers
A sliver of the magnificent nonfiction for older readers on offer to kids in 2020.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Nonfiction Chapter Books
I should clarify before we begin that calling these "Chapter Books" is a bit misleading. Think of them, instead, as works of Nonfiction for slightly older children in the 9-12 year-old range. Or, in the case of books like The Faithful Spy, 10 and up. A beautiful bevy of facts.
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