 | Nonfiction: True Books for Grades 6-8 |
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| Y070.1 Wakin | How TV Changed America's Mind |
| Y200 Gaskins | I Believe In . . .: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Young People Speak About Their Faith |
| Y305.23 Stolen | Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq |
| Y305.235 Griffin | Girl, 13: A Global Snapshot of Generation e |
| Y305.42 Kimmel | Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None |
| Y306.84 What | What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People |
| Y323 Bausum | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Y323 Boyer | Teen Power Politics |
| Y323.1 Freedman | Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Y327.12 Coleman | Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History of Spies and Espionage |
| Y327.12 Farman | The Short and Bloody History of Spies |
| Y331.4 Reber | In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers |
| Y333.95 Turner | Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes |
| Y363.34 Barnard | Dangerous Planet: Natural Disasters That Changed History |
| Y363.37 Kyi | Fires!: Ten Stories That Chronicle Some of the Most Destructive Fires in Human History |
| Y363.73 Gore | An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming |
| Y364.15 Schroeder | Scams!: Ten Stories That Explore Some of the Most Outrageous Swindlers and Tricksters of All Time |
| Y364.15 Schroeder | Thieves!: Ten Stories of Surprising Heists, Comical Capers, and Daring Escapades |
| Y364.15 St. George | In the Line of Fire: Presidents' Lives at Stake |
| Y393.3 Tanaka | Mummies: The Newest, Coolest, and Creepiest from Around the World |
| Y551.21 Bourseiller | Volcanoes: Journey to the Crater's Edge |
| Y551.55 Treaster | Hurricane Force: In the Path of America's Deadliest Storms |
| Y569 Giblin | The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones and How It Was Solved |
| Y579 Farrell | Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives |
| Y590.74 Zoehfeld | Wild Lives: A History of the People & Animals of the Bronx Zoo |
| Y591Lanting | Animal Athletes: Olympians of the Wild World |
| Y595.4 Montgomery | The Tarantula Scientist |
| Y598.7 Hoose | The Race to Save the Lord God Bird |
| Y599.2 Montgomery | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea |
| Y610.9 Dendy | Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine |
| Y612.8 Fleischman | Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science |
| Y613.6 Orndorff | Terrorists, Tornadoes, and Tsunamis: How to Prepare for Life's Danger Zones |
| Y614.4 Barnard | Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History |
| Y614.5 Grady | Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburg Fever to Avian Flu |
| Y614.5 Murphy | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 |
| Y616.3 Schlosser | Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food |
| Y621 Rubin | Toilets, Toasters & Telephones: The How and Why of Everyday Objects |
| Y621.43 Maurer | Rocket!: How a Toy Launched the Space Age |
| Y629.13 Levi | Cowboys of the Sky: The Story of Alaska's Bush Pilots |
| Y629.45 Thimmesh | Team Moon: How 400,00 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon |
| Y634.9 Beil | Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them |
| Y636.088 Diedrich | What Animals Tell Me: True Stories of an Animal Communicator |
| Y709.2 Greenberg | Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop |
| Y770.92 Wolf | Focus: Five Women Photographers |
| Y796 Blumenthal | Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America |
| Y796.5 Paulsen | Woodsong |
| Y796.522 Pfetzer | Within Reach: My Everest Story |
| Y796.72 Caldwell | Speed Show: How NASCAR Won the Heart of America |
| Y904 Scandiffio | Escapes! |
| Y909 Deary | The Wicked History of the World: History with the Nasty Bits Left In! |
| Y919.8 Armstrong | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance |
| Y919.8 Bredeson | After the Last Dog Died: The True-Life, Hair-Raising Adventure of Douglas Mawson and His 1911-1914 Antarctic Expedition |
| Y919.804 Beattie | Buried in Ice |
| Y920 Giblin | Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Book |
| Y937 Deem | Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii |
| Y940.53 Kacer | Hiding Edith |
| Y940.53 Warren | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps |
| Y940.54 Drez | Remember D-Day: The Plan, The Invasion, Survivor Stories |
| Y943.086 Bartoletti | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow |
| Y949.742 Halilbegovi | My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary |
| Y951.05 Jiang | Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
| Y973.7 Allen | Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War |
| Y973.7 Walker | Secrets if a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley |
| Y973.922 Hampton | Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story |
| Y974.7 Hopkinson | Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924 |
| Y974.7 Murphy | Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America |
| Y977.3 Murphy | The Great Fire |
| Y978 Harness | The Tragic Tale of Narcissa Whitman and a Faithful History of the Oregon Trail |
| Y998 Bledsoe | How to Survive in Antarctica |
| Y998 Revkin | The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World |
Last Updated: 10/07
