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Tag: older nonfiction

February 15, 2026 by Betsy Bird

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.

August 13, 2025 by Betsy Bird

Cover Reveal & Q&A: Books Good Enough For You – A Talk with Nancy Hudgins about Ursula Nordstrom

“Anything less is not good enough for a child.” Those would be the words of the irascible editor, Ursula Nordstrom. Now she's getting a middle grade nonfiction book on her life, and author Nancy Hudgins is here to tell us more.

December 29, 2024 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Nonfiction Books for Older Readers

As with any list of longer titles, I have to say right off the bat that what you'll find here is more of a representative sample of the great older fiction of 2024 than what was actually the "best".

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