Infuse, Invigorate, Inspire

Informational Books

to Knock Your Socks Off

Presented by Gail Nordstrom • Viking Library System

Barnyard Kids:

A Family Guide for

Raising Animals

by Dina Rudick (Quarry Books, 2015)

How to Swallow a Pig:

Step-by-Step Advice from

the Animal Kingdomby Steve Jenkins and

Robin Page (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)

Bonus!

The Animal Book:

A Collection of the Fastest,

Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest,

Shyest – and Most Surprising –

Animals on Earth

by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin, 2013)

“Scientists in the Field” seriesspace

The Call of the Osprey

by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

with photographs by

William Muñoz(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)

Bonus!“Scientists in the Field” series

Park Scientists: Gila Monsters,

Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in

America's Own Backyard

by Mary Kay Carson with photographs

by Tom Uhlman (2014)

Extreme Scientists: Exploring

Nature’s Mysteries from

Perilous Places

by Donna M. Jackson (2009)

Bonus!

“Scientists in the Field” series

The Frog Scientist

by Pamela S. Turner with

photographs by Andy Comins

(2009)

“Scientists in the Field”

series

The Frog Scientist

by Pamela S. Turner with

photographs by Andy Comins

(2009)

Untamed:

The Wild Life of

Jane Goodallby Anita Silvey(National Geographic, 2015)

Funny Bones:

Posada and His

Day of the Dead

Calaverasby Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams, 2015)

Enchanted Air:

Two Cultures, Two Wings:

A Memoir by Margarita Engle (Atheneum, 2015)

Bonus!

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen, 2014)

El Deafo by Cece Bell (Amulet, 2014)

The Inker’s Shadow by Allen Say (Scholastic, 2015)

Dreaming in Indian:

Contemporary Native

American Voices

edited by Lisa Charleyboy

and Mary Beth Leatherdale (Annick, 2014)

Sitting Bull:

Lakota Warrior and

Defender of His Peopleby S.D. Nelson(Abrams, 2015)

Water Is Water:

A Book About the

Water Cycleby Miranda Paul

and illustrated by Jason Chin(Neal Porter, 2015)

Bonus!

Mesmerized:

How Ben Franklin Solved

a Mystery that Baffled

All of Franceby Mara Rockliff

and illustrated by Iacopo Bruno(Candlewick, 2015)

The Boys Who

Challenged Hitler:

Knud Pedersen and

the Churchill Clubby Phillip HooseFarrar Straus Giroux, 2015

Game Changer:

John McLendon and

the Secret Gameby John Coy and

illustrated by Randy DuBurke(Carolrhoda, 2015)

Bonus!

Turning 15 on the

Road to Freedom:

My Story of the 1965

Selma Voting Rights Marchby Lynda Blackmon Lowery (Dial, 2015)

Fable Comicsedited by Chris Duffy(First Second, 2015)

Bonus!

Vietnamese Children's

Favorite Storiesretold by Tran Thi Minh Phuoc(Tuttle, 2015)

Bonus! Winter Bees

& Other Poems of the Cold

by Joyce Sidman and

illustrated by Rick Allen(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of

Poetry in 50 Objectsselected by Paul B. Janeczko

and illustrated by Chris Raschka(Candlewick, 2015)

Sail Awayby Langston Hughes

and illustrated by

Ashley Bryan (Atheneneum, 2015)

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