New & Noteworthy: Nonfiction for Kids

Moms and Dads and Caretakers, learn something together with your child at the library today. Fifteen new nonfiction books to share with your own little wonders!

All That Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem With Stuffby Meghan McCarthy

The Boo-boos That Changed the World: A True Story About an Accidental Inventionby Barry Wittenstein

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman

Impossible Inventions: Ideas That Shouldn’t Work by Malgorzata Mycielska

Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes From Past and Presentby Jamia Wilson

Bird Builds a Nest by Martin Jenkins

Born To Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong’s Life In Jazz by Mara Rockliff

Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten by Laura Veirs

The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art by Barb Rosenstock

The Truth About Hippos and The Truth About Bears by Maxwell Eaton

Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII by Patricia O’Connell Pearson

Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right To Vote by Susan Zimet

Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change, and Our New World by Keltie Thomas

Otis & Will Discover the Deep: Barton, Beebe, and the Dive Of the Bathysphere by Barb Rosenstock

Have trouble reading standard print? Many of these titles are available in formats for patrons with print disabilities.

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